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Nature-based winter sports are often framed as a solution to the tension between people's desire for pristine snowy landscapes and their effects on that environment. Low-impact activities such as ski touring and cross-country skiing allow outdoor enthusiasts to visit remote and mountainous locations without the need for hard infrastructure of ski resorts, leaving no permanent marks in the landscape. Yet their growing popularity raises a dilemma about negative effects, especially on wildlife conservation areas. We use the tracks and traces left behind by people as well as animals in Northern Europe and the Alps as a nexus through which to explore how humans and non-humans interact, ignore or avoid each other. Often imagined as ephemeral activities, we argue that the cumulative impacts of nature-based winter sports have significant consequences for wildlife and the way we aim to protect it long after its traces in the snow have disappeared.
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Anna‐Maria Walter
Joonas Plaan
Jonathan Carruthers‐Jones
Landscape Research
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
University of Helsinki
Tallinn University
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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/68e5cdb1b6db643587563a83 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01426397.2024.2386003