Proceedings of the 2005 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Abstract

Contains articles presented at the 2005 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Contents cover tourism planning, roundtable discussion, perceptions and preferences, impact monitoring, management presentations, founder?s forum, poster session, methodology, environmentalism and ethics, crowding and carrying capacity, management issues, constraints, urban park and community forestry: use and management, market segmentation, tourism and the tourist experience, leisure, work, and physical activity, place attachment, recreational and commercial fishing. NOTE, this is the full-text document. Individual papers are available via Treesearch.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 2005 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

• Developing Tourism Goals and Objectives for the Parks Canada Agency
• From Resource Dependence to Tourism: Discourses of Place in Two Vermont Towns
• Understanding Web Travel Search and Purchase Behaviors
• The Current State of Heritage Areas Research: Challenges and Opportunities
• Role of natural and cultural features in residents' perceptions of rural character
• The Role of Risk Perception in a One-day Wilderness Whitewater Rafting Trip
• Use, Users, and Benefits of the West Branch of the Farmington River
• A Classification of Major Springs in Florida Using the Water Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Framework
• Evaluating the Effectiveness of Wilderness Campsite Monitoring at Linville Gorge Wilderness
• Developing a Research Process to Monitor Social Conditions in Five Adirondack Park Protected Areas
• Managing Volunteers: Developing and Implementing an Effective Program
• Linking Research, Legal Mandates and Public Input to Update Michigan's ORV Plan
• Throw Away Your Old Environmental Education Trunks and Surf Into the Future
• Using Participant Observation to Study Recreation Management Decision-making
• Back to the Future: Trends in Northeast Recreation, Tourism and Future Research A Founders' Forum Presentation
• Ethical Issues in Recreation Research as Perceived by Recreation, Park Resources, and Leisure Services Faculty
• Just Don't Tell Me No: Managing OHV Recreational Use on National Forests
• Emergency Preparedness and Tourism: Both Win with Help of the Amateur Meteorologist
• Assessing the Public's Attitude Toward Fees at Wildland Recreation Sites
• Balancing Leisure and Work: Evidence from the Seasonal Home
• Sustainable Tourism Infrastructure Planning: a GIS Based Approach
• A Preliminary Investigation of Shopping Patterns at a Tourist Focused Outlet Center
• Capturing the Hike Experience on Video: a New Methodology for Studying Human Transactions with Nature
• Interpretive Theme Development from First Impressions and Visitor Center Evaluations at the Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area, WV
• Measurement of Direct-Use Wilderness Values: A Qualitative Study
• The Meaning of "Nature": Insights from Cognitive Linguistics
• Climbers' attitudes toward recreation resource impacts in the Adirondack Park
• Visitor Perceptions of Crowding: an Exploratory Study in The Mohonk Preserve
• Employee perceptions of protected area law enforcement
• An Analysis of Homeowner and Agency Wildland Fire Mitigation Strategies
• An examination of the motivation - enduring involvement relationship
• Racial Discrimination in Parks and Outdoor Recreation: an Empircal Study
• Perceived Opportunities and Constraints on Participation in a Massachusetts Youth Hunt
• Easement-based Land Conservation and Recreational Access in the Northern Forest
• Urban and Community Forestry Stewardship in Baltimore: Assessing Opportunities Using Conjoint Analysis
• Parks and the Geography Of Fear
• Methodological Challenges to Estimating Recreation Use Over a Large Geographical Area: a Case Study of 35 TVA Reservoirs
• Data Mining in Recreation Research: Determinants of Place Attachment in Recreational Camps and Cottages
• An analysis of attitudes towards the comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan using market segmentation
• Multi-use Trails: Truly Multi Use
• Leisure Activity Patterns and Household Composition: the Changing Household
• Service Quality in Tourism: a Case Study of the 2001 Study Tour of Taiwan
• Museum Visitors' Perspectives on and Preferred Experiences for Heritage Tourism
• Predictors of Sustainable Tourism: Resident Perceptions of Tourism in Holland and China
• Exploring Differences Between Positivistic and Post-positivistic Philosophy: an Interpretivistic Case Study of Tourist Expectations & Satisfaction
• Movie Effects on the Image of Thailand Among College Student Travelers
• Flow Experience Among Appalachian Trail Thru-hikers
• Exploring the Usefulness of the Dispositional Flow Scale for Outdoor Recreation Activities
• The Importance of Place and the Substitutability of River Recreation Resources: Empirical Evidence from the Chattooga Wild & Scenic River
• Recreation Patterns at Lava Lands Recreation Area, Newberry National Volcanic Monument
• Trail Condition Preferences of Horseback Riders on the Clemson University Experimental Forest
• Place Attachment and Perceptions of Benefits Generated by the Future Tioughnioga River Trail Project
• A discriminant analysis of social and psychological factors influencing fishing participation
• Fishing Heritage Festivals, Tourism, and Community Development in the Gulf Of Maine

Citation

Peden, John G.; Schuster, Rudy M., comps., eds. 2006. Proceedings of the 2005 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-341. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northestern Research Station. 429 p.