2006
Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium
Keynote Presenter
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Forest Service Deputy Chief Joel Holtrop (third from the left in the photo) recently gave the keynote address at the 2006 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium (NERR) in Bolton Landing, NY. Holtrop used the meeting to announce OPM’s creation of a new professional series in recreation management and spoke personally of his hopes that his grandchildren would come to love the outdoors as much as he has. The NERR has become one of the nation’s foremost recreation research conferences, attracting 175 participants from major federal and state management agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and 48 colleges and universities in 26 states and 4 Canadian provinces in 2006. Joel is shown here with student scholarship winners (left to right) Mark Gleason who is studying underwater remote operated vehicles at Michigan Tech; Paige Schneider, studying adventure tourism and sustainable development at Michigan State; Elizabeth Covelli from West Virginia University who is researching constraints facing ethnic minorities in national forests, Chris Wynveen from Texas A&M who studies deviant behavior in recreation settings; and Po-Hsin Lai, also from Texas A&M, who is examining the relationship between place identity and landscape conservation. Also shown (far right) is 2006 NERR Conference Chair Gerard Kyle (Texas A&M). --Written by Tom More |
