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Creator:: Johnston, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: Designation of areas as marine wilderness has been proposed as a strategy for managing the increasing threats facing the world’s oceans. Although social factors influence marine protected area success, the human dimensions of marine wilderness remain minimally explored. This thesis examines views of marine wilderness expressed by a representative sample...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: ............................................................................................................7 CHAPTER 2 PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF MARINE WILDERNESS AS A MARINE PROTECTED AREA DESIGNATION

Creator:: Moehrke, Caitlin
Abstract:: The current thesis presents contingent valuation research incorporating social psychological measures that investigates recreationists' willingness to pay recreation access fees at McDonald-Dunn Forest, Oregon. Context is provided through an extensive literature review of recreation fee management, issues and concerns related to recreation fees, recreationists' attitudes toward fees, relevant social psychological...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: at a popular wilderness area in Oregon. However, research studies concerning visitor displacement

Creator:: Pomeranz, Emily F.
Abstract:: Increasingly popular methods for managing impacts of tourism in nature-based settings include collaborative and voluntary codes of conduct. In southeast Alaska, for example, the Tourism Best Management Practices (TBMP) in Juneau and Wilderness Best Management Practices (WBMP) in Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness have been created to address shore and marine...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: character of this wilderness area was being threatened by vessel traffic, especially cruise ships. Most

Creator:: Gress, Sara
Abstract:: America for the past few decades, yet participation has continued to be dominated by White, upper-class individuals. These similar disparities exist in general outdoor recreation participation, with individuals from race and/or ethnic minority groups participating in outdoor recreation activities less than Whites. Research in the leisure field has revealed that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Attitudes About Wilderness in the National Outdoor Leadership School

Creator:: Doolittle, Lisa
Abstract:: The complexity of human/riverine systems has led to an increasing focus on land use patterns and policy. My goal is to understand the dynamics of a coupled human and natural system. The central question is how people in the community of Scio, Oregon perceive flooding, water quality, and riparian habitat....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Habitat in Thomas Creek Watershed of Oregon. Abstract approved: The complexity of human/riverine systems

Creator:: Driscoll, Abbey N.
Abstract:: Urban forests are fundamental to the health and sustainability of urban communities. In 2012, the U.S. Forest Service launched the Vibrant Cities, Urban Forests: A National Call to Action initiative which posed a variety of recommendations to advance urban forest management and programs throughout the country. In response to that...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Portland-Vancouver metropolitan area is a metropolitan region spanning the states of Oregon and

Creator:: Wiskind, Adam
Abstract:: Both policy makers and private landowners have come to recognize the importance of streamside areas in the maintenance of water quality and fish habitat. Because non-industrial landowners own 42% of the streamside area in the Coast Range, their management is a significant factor in the streamside health of Western Oregon....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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