Community views of fuels management: are national forest local recreation users more supportive?

Christine Vogt; Greg Winter; Sarah M. McCaffrey

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Community views of fuels management: are national forest local recreation users more supportive?

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Authors:

Christine Vogt, Greg Winter, Sarah M. McCaffrey

Year:

2007

Type:

General Technical Report - Proceedings

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Burns, R.; Robinson, K., comps. Proceedings of the 2006 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 2006 April 9-11; Bolton Landing, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-14. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 546-550.

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Abstract

Significant advances in social science-based wildfire research have occurred in the past five years. Managers, policy makers, and researchers have worked to better understand the perspectives of homeowners, residents, tourists, and recreationists on fire and fuels management and how to better involve them in the planning process. This research examines how the recreational usage of residents living near the Mark Twain National Forest influences levels of support for fuels management. Findings suggest cognitive factors that influence fuels support are different across recreation users and nonusers, but support itself was similar.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 2006 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Citation

Vogt, Christine; Winter, Greg; McCaffrey, Sarah. 2007. Community views of fuels management: are national forest local recreation users more supportive?. In: Burns, R.; Robinson, K., comps. Proceedings of the 2006 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium; 2006 April 9-11; Bolton Landing, NY. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-14. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 546-550.