Recreation Symposium Proceedings

Abstract

Forest recreation resource planners and managers are busy people. The surge in demand for recreation in recent years, including all kinds of leisure-time activities, has all but overwhelmed the people who must allocate the necessary funds and resources, design and develop the appropriate equipment and facilities, and maintain and manage the recreation resource. This Symposium was designed to help meet these needs of the planner and manager in both the public and private areas of the forest-recreation community.

Titles contained within Recreation Symposium Proceedings

• The recreation-resource inventory process for state and regional plans
• Predicting quantitative and qualitative values of recreation participation
• Design & layout of recreation facilities
• The economic impact of recreation development: a synopsis
• Private recreation enterprise economics
• An analysis of environmental quality ranking systems
• Preserving nature in forested wilderness areas and national parks
• Understanding the visual resource
• External benefits of natural environments
• Inventorying recreation use
• Multiple-use management for recreation in the east
• The camper
• Hikers and other trail users
• Membership in conservation groups and outdoor clubs
• Hunter-fisherman characteristics: factors in wildlife management and policy decisions
• The skier: his characteristics and preferences
• The snowmobile
• Undesirable behavior in forest campgrounds
• Perspectives on law enforcement in recreation areas
• Communicating with recreationists
• Facility rehabilitation
• Carrying capacity: maintaining outdoor recreation quality
• Cultural
• An opinion about the future of forest recreation research
• Expanding & strengthening outdoor recreation research
• The challenge of recreation planning: methodology and factors to consider

Citation

Larson, E. vH. 1971. Recreation Symposium Proceedings. Larson, E.vH., ed. The Forest Recreation Symposium. State University of New York College of Forestry; 1971 October 12-14: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 211 p.