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| Statewide Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan |
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| The state’s outdoor planning document, published every five years. It inventories the current resources and projects needs for the next five years. |
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| More or less, everyone going to the same area or facility at the same time. This is especially true on holidays and during the summer months. |
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| When an agency allows some form of consumption on the land within its jurisdiction. Timber harvest and replanting are common practices in multi-use areas. Mining and grazing also occur on multi-use lands. |
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| Typically, single-use areas are preserved in their natural state with no influence or impact by users. |
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| A preservationist such as John Muir, for example, tends to want to leave things the way they are, allowing only minimal human impact. |
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| A conservationist, for example Gifford Pinchot, would prescribe using the resource as a good steward would, while promoting sustainable practices. |
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| When whatever is harvested is being simultaneously replaced. For example, in sustainable logging, timber stands are harvested but immediately replaced so that they can be harvested again. |
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| One of the truisms of carrying capacity is that it is easier to see when a site's carrying capacity is exceeded than when it is optimal. Carrying capacity is the upper limit of the number of people and length of use periods that a recreation site can absorb without losing its usability for that same kind of quality recreation over time. |
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