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The educational poster session provided a way of increasing the ordinarily limited time available for discussion of papers, while simultaneously making it easier to communicate visual materials not well suited to oral presentations. Poster presenters were available for 2 hours to discuss their displays. Poster presentations were divided into five categories: user issues; environmental education; partnerships; the urban/wildland interface; and economic issues. These poster sessions are summarized below. This symposium session was chaired by Patricia L. Winter, USDA Forest Service.

As Californians struggle to maintain their parks during tight economic times, closer partnerships between providers must be sought to protect the resources of many parks while also maintaining desirable levels of service. A process is discussed that has been used by the USDI Park Service and the California Department of Parks and Recreation in reviewing park goals, administration and management of interpretive, recreational, natural and cultural resources of 11 parks within 3 joint clusters, with common recommendations for interagency cost efficiencies and improved public service. This...

Many believe that Alaska is unique and that its location, resources, and population influence the use patterns and attitudes of its National Forest recreation visitors so that they seem notably different from visitors to other National Forests outside Alaska. Data from a recreation visitor survey called CUSTOMER were analyzed for the years 1991 to 1993 to identify signs of differences between recreation visitors to the Chugach National Forest and other selected National Forests outside Alaska. Although some significant differences do appear, a definitive conclusion may not be drawn from...

To meet financial constraints while maintaining or improving programs, natural resource managers have increasingly turned to partnerships with other public agencies or private businesses. The process of developing a successful partnership, however, is rarely chronicled, much less empirically studied. By using the available natural resource and business management literature, a set of criteria have been suggested as necessary components of successful partnerships. The resulting conceptual model provides a framework for guiding future empirical verification.

The USDA Forest Service has been implementing a partnership initiative for 6 years as part of the National Recreation Strategy. Several internal efforts have been undertaken to evaluate the progress made in this initiative as well as to make adjustments in the initiative for the future. These evaluation efforts are extended to present a content analysis of recreation partnerships operating in the National Forest system in 1991. Results are tabulated from a sample of 292 partnership reports submitted by each National Forest to the Washington Office in 1991. Information about geographic...

Dr. Biswell's approach to fire management balanced fire prevention, suppression, and fuel management. Dr. Biswell maintained that with increased support for fire prevention and fuel management, several profound changes would be anticipated, including a decrease in the number of wildfires, as well as a decrease in requirements for suppression. Interested persons can help shift the current emphasis in fire management to increased support for fuel management (and particularly prescribed burning) by repeatedly informing the public of the benefits of prescribed burning in terms the lay public...

A synthesis of statements and research is presented on different minority communities, and a response to the statement that "ecology is a white man’s problem" is examined. These characterizations provide insight into why ecology may be perceived as a "white man’s problem." The common themes are then used to develop several suggested agency responses. These actions can help to make ecology or ecosystem management more relevant to minority communities and in turn foster more widely based acceptance and support.

The Heritage Corridors Project was a unique partnership between the California Department of Parks and Recreation, the California State University, and the Across California Conservancy. The purpose of the project was to develop a map of selected northern California outdoor recreation and heritage sites. Data about facility accessibility improvements (restrooms, clear access from the designated parking space to the site or facility, Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TDD), Braille materials, large print materials, and sound amplification devices), and interpretive and recreation...

Preliminary results were examined from a self-administered questionnaire regarding the relationships between personal values, individual characteristics, and depreciative behaviors. Respondents were queried about socio-demographics, reasons for visiting forest recreation areas, reasons for liking and disliking the forest, activities witnessed while visiting the forest, activities and occurrences that bothered the respondent, depreciative behaviors engaged in, and suggested penalties. Interesting racial variations were revealed in several areas of inquiry. Findings are useful to resource...