With a growing population and increasing demand for recreation resources,
managers of public lands face unique challenges in allocating and overseeing resource
use. One of the most reliable methods for gathering information from resource users
involves surveying. Summaries and applications of survey results typically have not
fully addressed the spatial...
The sentiments expressed by Wells capture the fundamental nature of natural resource and land management in Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook County, Oregon. Driven by the attraction and abundance of natural and scenic amenities in central Oregon, increases in recreation, tourism, population, development and conflict, have contributed to the complexities of...
The normative concept in social-psychology has been
applied to major recreational management issues such as
determining evaluative standards, user conflict, and
depreciative behaviors. This thesis examines the influence
of information on user norms for the purpose of finding
better applications of information as problem solving,
management tools. The study used...
International tourism is a rapidly growing industry. It
is also an important revenue source for certain countries
and regions. Therefore, accurate forecasting is called for
by those countries and regions. The main purpose of this
research is to use multiple regression analysis to estimate
equations for forecasting tourism demand by...
Forested landscapes displaying evidence of timber
harvesting have often induced conflicts between forest
managers and the public. Potential conflicts with
neighboring homeowners also has been increasing because of
growing environmental concern and increasing numbers of
neighbors.
Analysis of previous studies suggests that people's
reaction toward forested landscapes will be different...
The objective of this study was to determine whether visitor
perceptions of ecological impacts at wilderness campsites could be
accurately measured using photographs or written descriptions rather
than actual site evaluations. Photographs and written site descriptions
of 20 campsites were used to measure perceptions of two forms
of campsite impacts...
The concept of forest health has recently emerged as a focal concept for federal forest policy. At the same time, social and political conflicts over the characteristics of a healthy forest, and over the causes of poor forest health, underscore the lack of a shared understanding of what the term...
Studies of crowding in backcountry recreation areas
have generally shown that only a minor part of the total
variance in perceived crowding is explained by density and
interaction. This suggests that users of backcountry areas have
learned ways of coping with people in these settings, where one
of the major...