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Tourism in Changing Natural Environments

Measuring park visitation vulnerability to climate extremes in U.S. Rockies National Parks tourism

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Pages 224-249 | Received 15 Mar 2017, Accepted 22 Jul 2017, Published online: 28 Sep 2017

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