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Recreation, Protected Areas and Social Science

 

Recreation, Protected Areas, and Social Science: Where are we Going?

Brian R. Payne

Water Based Recreation Management Studies

 

Watercraft User Characteristics, Management Preferences, and User Encounters on the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River: 1979 - 1996           

Steven Bowes, and Chad Dawson

Customer Satisfaction at US Army Corps of Engineers-Administered Lakes: A Compilation of Two Years of Performance Data

Robert Burns, Alan R. Graefe, and John Titre

Forest Recreation Management Studies

 

Identifying Functional Communities for Use in Forest Planning and Decisionmaking

Pamela I Jakes and Thomas E. Fish

Recreational Aspects of Forestland Easements in the Northern Forest Region of New York State

Steven Bick, Harry Haney, and Chad Dawson

Public Recreation on Private Forests: No More Guarantees

Barry McPhee

 

Outdoor Recreation Management Studies

 

Permitting Pets in Florida State Park Campgrounds - Selected Perceptions of Campers

Andrew Holdnak, Stephen Holland, and Tony Fedler

Parables and Paradigms: An Introduction to Using Communication Theories in Outdoor Recreation Research 

James Absher

The Relationship Between Activity Specialization and Preferences for Setting and Route Attributes of Selected Rock Climbers 

Kurt Merrill and Alan R. Graefe

Statistical Tests and Measures for the Presence and Influence of Digit Preference            

Jay Beaman and Michel Grenier

Personal Benefits Of Public Open Space: A case Study of Boston’s Arnold Arboretum

Thomas More and John Blackwell

An Exploratory Comparison of Motivations and Crowding Norms Between Ethnic Groups in Downhill Ski Areas of New York State and Korea    

Chung In Park and Chad Dawson

Movies and Mood: An Exploration of the Critical Variables Related to Mood States     

Laura Payne and Tammie Shaw

Minority Group Participation in Recreational Fishing: The Role of Demographics and Constraints    

Kelly Finn and David Loomis

 

Estimation of Economic Impact of Recreation and Tourism

 

The Economic Impact of Snowmobiling in Maine

Steve Reiling, Matthew Kotchen, and Rod Bennett

A Comparison of Estimates of Statewide Pleasure Trip Volume And Expenditures Derived From Telephone Versus Mail Surveys       

Dae-Kwan Kim, Daniel Spotts, and Donald Holecek

 

Place Meaning and Attachment

 

Sense of Place: Mount Desert Island Residents and Acadia National Park

Nicole Ballinger and Robert Manning

A Typology of Place Attachment and Activity Involvement

Andrew Mowen, Alan R. Graefe, and Randy Virden

International Students’ Image of Rural Pennsylvania as a Travel Destination

Po-Ju Chen and Deborah Kerstetter

 

Tourism Studies  

 

Segmenting Michigan Tourists Based on Distance Traveled

Xiamei Xu, Tsao-Fang Yuan, Edwin Gomez, and Joesph Fridgen

Trip Experiences and Tourists’ Motivation           

Joseph Chen, Alan R. Graefe, and Deborah Kerstetter

It’s Real Sustainable Tourism Development: Case Studies from the Heartland

Steven Burr

Scale Issues in Tourism Development       

Sinji Yang, Lori Pennington-Gray, and Don Holecek

 

Nature  Based Tourism Planning and Development

 

An Empirical Investigation of Adventure-based Incentive Travel Programs: Exploring the Relationship Between Benefits Sought, Demographic and Travel Behavior Variables, and Expected Activity Level       

Kelly Bricker, Stuart Cottrell, and Peter Verhoven

Relationships Between Motivations, Activities, and Settings: The Recreation Opportunity Spectrum within the Delaware State Park System         

Hans Vogelsong, Alan R. Graefe, John Confer, Dave Solan, and Jennifer Kramp

 

Park and Customer Management

 

Balancing Quality Customer Service with Financial Returns in Privatized Park Services

Glen Alexander

Development of a Computerized Maintenance Management System at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation        

Francis Riedy and Dan Skelton

Forest Industry Hunt-Lease Programs in the South: Implications for Managers

Allan Marsinko, David Guynn, and Don F. Roach II

 

Values

 

Why Study Values?

Pamela Fakes

Valuing Wetland Attributes in the Lake Champlain Basin  

Don Dennis and Walter Kuestzel

Landowner Values, Water Quality, and Recreation in the Lake Champlain Basin      

Walter Kuentzel and Don Dennis

Spiritually Beneficial Aspects of Wilderness Recreation Experiences          

Laura Fredrickson

 

Historic, Heritage, and Cultural Tourism

 

Walking Through Time: Heritage Resources Within the Appalachian Trail Corridor  

David Lacy and Karl Roenke

The Effects of Summer Employment with Parks Canada on Students’ Awareness of Heritage  

 Andrew Leuty and Dick Stanley

 Behavioral Patterns of Muslims and Christians at the 1992 Karmeh Festival, The case of Lebanon           

Houssam Chaar and Alan R. Graefe

The Effects of Festival Attributes Upon Perceptions of Crowding

Matthew Anderson, Deborah Kerstetter, and Alan Graefe

Perceptions and Status of Michigan as a Heritage Tourism State: Results of an Eleven Month Telephone Survey

Gail Vander Stoep

An Overview of Contemporary American Rodeo

Gene Theodori

Our Wilderness Heritage: A Study of the Compatibility of Cultural and Natural Resource Management

Karl Roenke and David Lacy

 

Volunteers and Partnerships

 

Achieving Success in Trail Related Partnerships: The Michigan State Forest Experience

Joel Lynch and Charles Nelson

Rural Watershed Partnerships: Lessons from West Virginia

Steve Selin, Alan Collins, and Susan Hunter

 

Recreation and Natural Resource Planning

 

Measuring the Benefits of Protected Areas: A Critical Perspective on the IUCN Guidelines

Dick Stanley and Luc Perron

Emergent Issues in Forest Plan Revision: A Dialogue

Susan Stewart, Paul Monson, and Pamela Jakes

National Recreation Trails: An Overview

Joanne Tynon, James Harding, and Deborah Chavez

Demonstrating The Value of a Social Science Research Program to a Natural Resource Management Agency

Pamela Jakes, John Dwyer, and Deborah Carr

 

Wildland Recreation

 

The Role of “Outdoor Capital” in the Socialization of Wildland Recreationists

Robert Bixler and Beverly Morris

Protecting and Managing Traditional Allagash Wilderness Waterway Recreation Activities

Thomas Cieslinski

New England’s Northeast Recreation Activity markets: Trends in the 90’s

Rod Warnick

Trends In Participation Rates for Wildlife-Associated Outdoor Recreation Activities by Age and Race/Ethnicity: Implications for Cohort-Component Projection Mode’s 

John Dwyer and Allan Marsinko

Cognitive Dimensions of Recreational User Experiences In Wilderness: An Exploratory Study in Adirondack Wilderness Areas

Chad P. Dawson, Peter Newman, and Alan Watson

 

Poster Sessions

 

The Influence of Involvement and Outcome Messages on Consumer Reference Prices

Gerard Kyle and Ercan Sirakaya

An Interactive Information Kiosk For The Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center, Newcomb, NY

Lien Alpert and Lee Herrington

Monitoring Appalachian Trail Corridors: An Example of Volunteer Land Management

Robert Bristow, Greg Knoettner, and Rick Wagner

Valuing Impacts of Forest Quality Change: Recreation and New York’s Allegheney State Park

James Booker and Russell Patterson

Recreational User Attitudes Towards Management Strategies of Allegheney State Park

Michael Nisengard and Miklos Gratzer

Incorporating Technical Rock Climbing into Protected Area Management: A Case Example of Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New York State

Jennifer Cairo and Thomas Cobb