ABSTRACT
There is a tension between the dominant Leave No Trace (LNT) ethic designed to protect wilderness from visitors and an emerging sustainability paradigm intended to help participants and operators in outdoor and nature-based recreation, education, and tourism understand and take responsibility for their social, economic, and ecological entanglements on wider scales and longer terms (Brymer, Downey, & Gray, 2009; Buckley, 2009; Cachelin, Rose, Dustin, & Shooter, 2011; Hill, 2013; Hill & Brown, 2014; Leung, Marion, & Farrell, 2008; Mullins, 2014a). This tension speaks to the need to develop, share, and reflect on outdoor travel and living skills that embrace and enable various lived socio-ecological relationships with places, landscapes, and environments.
