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This study describes landowner values about water quality among resident landowners in the LaPlatte River watershed, tests whether suburbanization is producing a new mix of social values, analyzes the relationship between values and behaviors, and explores the link between recreation and water quality advocacy. Results showed that residents hold pro-environmental values, although the region is not a stronghold of environmentalism. There was a clear "flatlander" effect, with newcomers holding more pro-environmental values than long term residents. Long term residents used their land more...

Research on outdoor recreation and leisure concepts has traditionally focused on activities and corresponding behaviors. However, outdoor settings are not merely places for recreational behavior, particular settings may have the ability to produce opportunities for individuals to attain both emotional and cognitive benefits. Some of these opportunities may be considered spiritually inspirational and beneficial. Moreover, some may have the capacity to manifest into numinous or "bliss" experiences, literally transforming individuals who have had such experiences. Prior research indicates...

A poll of summer students hired in the summer of 1996 by Parks Canada reveals positive changes in the students' awareness of Canadian identity. The larger improvement came from students who traveled away from home versus those who worked near home and from those who worked in a park rather than at an historic site. An examination of the results on a question by question basis reveals the source of many extreme outliers among the results. Almost all of the outliers resulted from the same small number of questions.

Selected characteristics of forest industry hunt lease programs in the southern United States were evaluated for the 1994 calendar year. Results were compared with earlier similar surveys. Utilization of the leased lands by lessees has increased over the last 5 years. There were also indications that the intensity of wildlife management on these lands has increased along with increasing awareness of the economic value of leasing.

Knowledge about societal or corporate values actually affect what we see on the land? This paper illustrates how information of societal values influences the outcomes of resource management and planning.

This research explores the use of conjoint analysis to assess and understand wetland values. A conjoint rating survey was designed and mailed to landowners in the Laplatte River Basin (Lake Champlain) in Vermont. Landowners rated options to protect wetlands that varied by the wetland's ability to decrease pollutants entering Lake Champlain, value in providing food and shelter for wildlife, opportunities for outdoor recreation, surrounding land use, the presence of rare or unique vegetation, and cost to each household to protect. The analytical capabilities of the conjoint rating model are...

The Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) was first developed by the US Forest Service to classic lands available for recreation by activities, settings, and visitor expectations. This paper examines the relationship between these three criteria within the Delaware State Park System. Respondents were asked to rank the importance of 22 reasons for visiting a state park, and to report their preferences for 18 activities available at Delaware state parks. Factor and cluster analyses were used to reduce these data to general motivation factors and activity preference groups. The relationships...

The privatization of public facilities continues to be an issue that impacts the bottom line of many public agencies. Choosing a concessionaire or contractor involves much more that selecting the highest bidder. Examining all the variables is a necessity.

Every asset, old or new, requires maintenance. Buildings, bridges, roads, dams, utilities and grounds; each requires some degree of maintenance to ensure long life cycles and safe operation. Maintenance is science, art and philosophy. It is science since its execution ultimately relies on most of all the sciences; it is art because seemingly identical problems regularly demand and receive varying approaches and actions; it is above all a philosophy because it must be carefully fitted to the operation or organization it serves and, because of the way it is viewed by its users, will ultimatel...

The purpose of this empirical study was to examine benefits sought from an incentive travel experience prior to departure and individuals' subsequent involvement in various activities during the experience. During September-November, 1996, a California-based adventure travel company organized two incentive travel experiences to Fiji and Kenya for radio stations in San Francisco, CA and Detroit, MI. Four primary dimensions of benefits, "relaxation," "explorer," "classic," and "show me" were uncovered. Benefit dimensions were related to the expected level of participation in swimming and...