ABSTRACT
In 1990, California passed a unique milestone in the State's evolution—California became a state with no ethnic majority. No ethnic group now maintains a fifty percent or greater representation in the State's population. California has become an urban state with the majority of our population increasingly removed from any direct reliance upon California's lands and natural resources. Recognizing the magnitude and pace of demographic changes in the West, a number of state, federal, and regional recreation management agencies have pooled their resources to form an inter-agency study team in order to address changing land and resource management issues. These changes have effected patterns of recreation, land use and outdoor ethics, and the nature of the relationship of Californians to the state's wildlands. Changing recreational technologies have contributed to changing patterns of recreational use, accompanied by a public expectation that resource management agencies can and should accommodate new activities.
