Abstract
Artists have played a major role in promoting and interpreting wild lands to tourists for more than a century and a half. But there is much more to the artist-tourist connection than artistic products and their seemingly infinite ability to persuade us to preserve public lands and to visit them for recreation. The little understood process of creative inspiration, beginning with artists’ need to experience nature and ending with their need to share that experience, reflects parallel needs of tourists.
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