Proceedings of the 2008 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Abstract

Contains articles and posters presented at the 2008 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Contents cover tourism marketing, fish and wildlife, place meaning, leisure and gender, recreation resource allocation, nature-based tourism, methods, leisure motives, outdoor recreation management, tourism impacts, outdoor recreation among specific populations, leisure constraints, environmental attitudes and values, leisure cognition, environmental education and experimental learning, wildland-urban interface issues, and attribute evaluation and preference.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 2008 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

• The impact of a summer education program on the environmental attitudes and awareness of minority children
• Visitor perceptions of the benefits of local park
• Active transportation among elementary-aged students: walking or biking to and from school
• Interrelationship of motivation for and perceived constraints to physical activity participation and the well-being of senior center participants
• Visitor perceptions of and support for management actions at an urban national historic site
• The spatial relationship between exurban development and designated wilderness lands in the contiguous United States
• Increasing walking at the C&O Canal National Historical Park: an intervention focused on local employees
• Research roundtable on health, parks, recreation, and tourism
• Values and motivations of private forest owners in the United States: a framework based on open-ended responses in the national woodland owner survey
• Listening to your audience: developing an educational tool to assist with recreation planning on private lands
• Tourism marketing: the best there is--a study of West Virginia
• The Ginghai-Tibet railway and Tibet tourism: travelers' perspectives
• Local residents' attitudes toward potential tourism development: the case of Ansted, West Virginia
• Tourism package preferences of West Virginia state park visitors
• Social factors shaping the formation of a multi-stakeholder trails network group for the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
• Partnerships and volunteers in the U.S. Forest Service
• An analysis of local stakeholder values for tropical protected areas in Madagascar
• I want to join the zoo! A conjoint study of membership program preferences
• Indicators and standards of quality across space and time, as reflected in a study in Acadian National Park, Maine
• An exploratory analysis of coping schemes used by paddlers who camped in the St. Regis Canoe Area, New York
• New England's travel and tourism markets: trends in geographic target markets beyond the 90s--the y2k decade
• Eco-medical tourism: can it be sustainable?
• Bridging an interdisciplinary gap: a case for uniting tourism and urban planning for a consistent understanding of the
• Sense of place in outdoor-pursuits trip groups
• Getting the engine started: motivations for participation in a university outdoor recreation program
• Testing a new scale of place identity in the Texas Hill Country
• Reassessing the causal structure of enduring involvement
• The relationship between place bonding and social trust, as explored in a study in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas
• Crowding at Cape Lookout National Seashore: an examination of the influence of visitor characteristics on encounter norms and perceived crowding
• Wilderness, wildness, and visitor access to Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia
• Perceptions of self-drive tourists along the Alaska-Canada border toward the increased security requirements of the western hemisphere travel initiative
• A comparison of motivations between island tourists visiting Penghu, Taiwan, and Phuket, Thailand
• An examination of gambling impacts at an upstate New York college
• Modeling the effects of study abroad programs on college students
• Using destination image to predict visitors' intention to revisit three Hudson River Valley, New York, communities
• Behavioral intentions within off-highway vehicle communities in the northeastern U.S.: an application of the theory of planned behavior
• Research to guide trail management at Acadia National Park, Maine
• The relationships between anglers' risk perception, sensation-seeking, and fishing site choice along the northeast and Yilan Coast Scenic Area, Taiwan
• Visitor use patterns and satisfaction along the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway, Oregon
• Keeping our charm: residents, growth, and quality of life issues in a small but growing Texas coastal community
• Identifying the effects of cognitive, affective, and behavioral components on residents' attitudes toward place marketing
• Exploring the crowding-satisfaction relationship between day and overnight users in the lower Colorado River Basin, Texas
• Research to support analysis and management of carrying capacity at Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge, New Hampshire and Maine
• Campers' perspectives about boating in the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest, New York
• Finding Artemis: pathways for recruiting and constraints to retaining female hunters
• Deer hunting and television: are tv shows creating expectations among deer hunters?
• A comparison of agritourism and other farm entrepreneurs: implications for future tourism and sociological research on agritourism
• Northern Virginia wineries: understanding visitor motivations for market segmentation

Citation

Klenosky, David B.; Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc; eds. 2009. Proceedings of the 2008 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-42. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 356 p. Online only.