ABSTRACT
In terms of societal survival, it encompasses environmental elements such as watershed, fire, air quality, and biodiversity. In economic perspectives, wildlands provide resources—often unique—for power, medicines, building materials, food, and other goods as well as space for recreation, a growing segment of the economy. The social nature of recreation has two major consequences for wildland recreation: first, the experience involves other people, not just the individual and the environment. Second, those who come to the wildland environment come as persons who have learned to be who they are with significantly different views of their worlds and of themselves. From a conflict perspective, the divisions and differences of a social system are not incidental or superficial. There are many models of division. One of the most appealing has Western societies divided into tiers of stratification based on the new labor market composition.
