Aircraft overflights at national parks: Conflict and its potential resolution

Park Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Bell, Paul A ^a   Mace, Britton L ^b   Benfield, Jacob A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air tours; Conflict; Noise; Overflights; Soundscape

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649139453     PISSN: 07359462     EISSN: 10909966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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