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Keynote Address

 

Making research more relevant:  Give it a try!

David W. Lime

Crowding Issues in Resource Management

           

Balancing tradeoffs in the Denali Wilderness:  An expanded approach to normative research using stated choice analysis.           

Steven R. Lawson and Robert Manning

Coping, crowding and satisfaction:  A study of Adirondack wilderness hikers. 

Andrew K. Johnson and Chad Dawson

Perceived crowding at Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area.   

Megha Budruk, Robert E. Manning, William A. Valliere, and Benjamin Wang

Transportation planning and social carrying capacity in the National Parks.

William Valliere, Robert Manning, Megha Budruk, Steven Lawson, and Benjamin Wang
 

The Role of Information in Travel Planning Decisions

           

Assessing information needs and communication behaviors of National Forest summer visitors.

James D. Absher, Brijesh Thapa, and Alan R. Graefe

The commodification process of extreme sports:  The diffusion of the X-Games by ESPN.        

Chang Huh, Byoung Kwan Lee, and Euidong Yoo

Marketing National Parks:  Oxymoron or opportunity?    

Alan K. Hogenauer
 

Demographic Trends in Outdoor Recreation Participation & Travel

           

Wildlife-associated recreation in the North Central Region:  Participation patterns and management implications.     

Allan Marsinko and John Dwyer

The New England travel market: Generational travel patterns, 1979 to 1996. 

Rod Warnick

Welcome center research:  How valuable is secondary research?         

Lousia Meyer, Tara Patterson, Lori Pennington-Gray, Andrew Holdnak, and Brijesh Thapa
 

Methodology in Outdoor Recreation Research I:  Interventions

 

Unique programming:  An examination of the benefits of a free choice program.         

Dorothy L. Schmalz, Deborah L. Kerstetter, and Harry C. Zinn

Outdoor experiential-based training:  Motivational and environmental influences affecting outcomes.        

Teresa (Birdie) High and Alan R. Graefe

Use of experience sampling method to understand the wilderness experience.      

Lynn Anderson

Encounters and the guided group trip:  Going “on-the-scene” to examine the situational interpretation of encounters.      

Erin K. Sharpe
 

Leisure Motivations of Outdoor Recreationists

 

Differences in SCUBA diver motivations based on level of development.   

Sharon L. Todd, Alan R. Graefe, and Walter Mann

Skier motivations:  Do they change over time?       

Erin White and Lori Pennington-Gray

Sociocultural perspectives of trapping revisited:  A comparative analysis of activities and motives 1994 and 2000.        

Rodney R. Zwick, Ron Glass, Kim Royar, and Tom Decker
 

Resource Management & International Tourism Development

 

The impact of potential political security level on international tourism.           

Young-Rae Kim, Chang Huh, and Seung Hyun Kim

Future of the Korea National Parks:  A preliminary Delphi study of key experts.     

Byung-kyu Lee and Wilbur F. LaPage

 

User Satisfaction in Outdoor Recreation

 

A preliminary analysis of Florida State Park satisfaction survey data.     

Andrew Holdnak, Stephen Holland, and Erin Parks  

Recreationists in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area:  A survey of user characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes.          

Robert C. Burns and Alan R. Graefe

Visitor satisfactions: Backcountry and wilderness users in the White Mountain National Forest.

Chad P. Dawson, Rebecca Oreskes, Frederick Kacprzynski, and Tom More

Participants’ perceptions of the 1997-1998 Missouri State Parks Passport Program.         

Yi-Jin Ye and Jaclyn Card
 

Environmental Knowledge, Concern, Behavior & Education

 

An evaluation of Appalachian Trail hikers’ knowledge of minimum impact skills and practices.  

Peter Newman, Robert Manning, Jim Bacon, Alan Graefe, and Gerard Kyle

Who cares and who acts?  Different types of outdoor recreationists exhibit different levels of environmental concern and behavior.         

Mario F. Teisl and Kelly O’Brien

Visitor behavior and resource impacts at Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park. 

Rex Turner and Wilbur LaPage
 

Leisure Constraints of Outdoor Recreationists

 

The effects of perceived leisure constraints among Korean university students.          

Sae-Sook Oh, Sei-Yi Oh, and Linda L. Caldwell

Exploration of the influence of self-efficacy on recreation participation levels of individuals with visual impairments who use dog guides. 

Laurlyn K. Harmon and Linda L. Caldwell
 

Urban Recreation & Development Issues  

 

An integrative concept for visitor monitoring in a heavily used conservation area in the vicinity of a large city:  The Danube Floodplains National Park, Vienna.

Arne Arnberger, Christiane Brandenburg, and Andreas Muhar

Linkages in the use of recreation environments across the urban to ex-urban spectrum by urban residents.         

John F. Dwyer and Susan C. Barro  

The role, use and benefits of natural recreation areas within and near residential subdivisions.    

Christine A. Vogt and Robert W. Marans
 

Economic Impacts & Non-economic Benefits of Tourism

 

New York State’s 1999 agritourism business study. 

Diane Kuehn and Duncan Hilchey

Rail-trails and special events:  Community and economic benefits.           

Charles Nelson, Christine Vogt, Joel Lynch, and Daniel Stynes 

Private business perceptions of transportation issues and the Island Explorer Bus system at Acadia National Park, Maine. 

Rea Brennan, Marc Edwards, and John J. Daigle
 

Management Decision-making & Planning for Outdoor Recreation

 

Integrating resource, social and managerial indicators of quality into carrying capacity decision making.           

Peter Newman, Robert Manning, and Bill Valliere

Redefining roles of science in planning and management:  Ecology as a planning and management tool.    

Greg Mason and Stephen Murphy
 

Impacts of Wildlife Viewing

 

Elk viewing in Pennsylvania:  An evolving eco-tourism system.

Bruce E. Lord, Charles H. Strauss, and Michael J. Powell

Competing values:  A case study of Pennsylvania’s elk herd as a tourism attraction.        

Jeffrey A. Walsh and Leonard K. Long

Impacts of wildlife viewing at Dixville Notch Wildlife Viewing Area. 

Judith K. Silverberg, Peter J. Pekins, and Robert A. Robertson
 

Methodology in Outdoor Recreation Research II:  Instruments & Methods

 

Effects of pretesting with the adventure recreation model instrument.       

Anderson Young, Lynn Anderson, and Dale Anderson

Modeling nonlinear preferences.     

Donald F. Dennis
 

Personal Relevance, Involvement & Loyalty in Outdoor Recreation

 

Psychological commitment as a mediator of the relationship between involvement and loyalty.      

Joohyun Lee and Alan Graefe

 

Gender Issues in Outdoor Recreation & Resource Management

 

Older Chinese women immigrants and their leisure experiences:  Before and after emigration to the United States. 

Ching-Hua Ho and Jaclyn A. Card   

Towards an understanding of gender differences with respect to whitewater rafting preferences.     

Duarte B. Morais, Traci Zillifro, and Susanne Dubrouillet
 

Trails over Land & Water:  Issues of Multiple Use & Conflict

 

Use and user patterns among Michigan licensed Off-Highway Vehicles ownership types.  

Joel A. Lynch and Charles M. Nelson

Recreation conflict of riparian landowners with personal watercraft and motorboat use along the New York’s Great Lakes. 

Cheng-Ping Wang and Chad P. Dawson

User preferences for social conditions on the St. Croix International Waterway.      

Jamie Hannon, John J. Daigle, and Cynthia Stacey

Security along the Appalachian Trail.   

James J. Bacon, Robert E. Manning, Alan R. Graefe, Gerard Kyle, Robert D. Lee, Robert C. Burns, Rita Hennessy, and Robert Gray

Trails research:  Where do we go from here?  

Michael A. Schuett and Patricia Seiser
 

Attachments to Places & Activities in Outdoor Recreation

 

Visitor meanings of place:  Using computer content analysis to examine visitor meanings at three National Capitol sites.    

Wei-Li Jasmine Chen, Chad L. Pierskalla, Theresa L. Goldman, and David L. Larsen

The importance of visitors’ knowledge of the cultural and natural history of the Adirondacks in influencing sense of place in the High Peaks Region. 

Laura Fredrickson

Attachments to places and activities:  The relationship of psychological constructs to customer satisfaction attributes.        

Thomas D. Wickham and Alan R. Graefe

An exploration of human territoriality in forest recreation.       

Harry C. Zinn, Laurlyn K. Harmon, Brijesh Thapa, Deborah L. Kerstetter, and Alan R. Graefe

Community attachment and resource harvesting in rural Denmark.

Rodney R. Zwick and David Solan
 

Poster Session  

 

The political economy of wilderness designation in Nova Scotia.   

Glyn Bissix, Leah Levac, and Peter Horvath

The Westfield River Watershed Interactive Atlas:  Mapping recreation data on the Web.    

Robert S. Bristow and Steven Riberdy

Park resources as an essential to urban societies.         

Kristin Dion, Doug Stefancik, Serena Hawkins, and Robert Bristow

Parks and recreation employment status:  Implications from a civil service perspective.     

Joel Frater and Arthur Graham

Natural resources interpretation:  The role of researchers – A new-old approach.        

Mark Gleason

Mountain bike trail compaction relation to selected physical parameters.     

Jeff Hale and Rodney R. Zwick

 

Management Presentation

 

Human preferences for ecological units:  Patterns of dispersed campsites within landtype associations on the Chippewa National Forest.

Lisa Whitcomb, Dennis Parker, Bob Carr, Paul Gobster, and Herb Schroeder
 

Roundtable Discussions

 

Creating recreation partnerships on private agricultural and forest land in the urban Northeast:  A case study from the Great Meadows of the Connecticut River.  

Robert L. Ryan and Juliet Hansel

Applied research opportunities in developed campgrounds.  

Carl P. Wiedemann

Adapting the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) for states lands planning.          

Susan Bulmer, Linda Henzel, Ann Mates, Matt Moore, and Thomas A. More

It’s time to put the C.A.R.T. before the H.O.R.S.E. or Putting Critical, Analytical, and Reflective Thinking before “Handyman” Oriented Recreation Student Education.       

David L. Jewell