Proceedings of the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Abstract

Contains articles presented at the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Contents cover recreation; protected areas and social science; water based recreation management studies; forest recreation management studies; outdoor recreation management studies; estimation of economic impact of recreation and tourism; place meaning and attachment; tourism studies; nature-based tourism planning and development; park and customer management; values; historic, heritage, and cultural tourism; volunteers and partnerships; recreation and natural resource planning; and wildland recreation.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

• Recreation, protected areas, and social science: where are we going?
• Watercraft user characteristics, management preferences, and user encounters on the upper Delaware scenic and recreational river: 1979-1996
• Customer satisfaction at US Army Corps of Engineers-administered lakes: a compilation of two years of performance data
• Identifying functional communities for use in forest planning and decisionmaking
• Recreational aspects of forestland easements in the northern forest region of New York State
• Public recreation on private forests: no more guarantees
• Permitting pets in Florida State Park campgrounds: selected perceptions of campers
• Parables and paradigms: an introduction to using communication theories in outdoor recreation research
• The relationship between activity specialization and preferences for setting and route attributes of selected rock climbers
• Statistical tests and measures for the presence and influence of digit preference
• Personal benefits of public open space: a case study in Boston's Arnold Arboretum
• An exploratory comparison of motivations and crowding norms between ethnic groups in downhill ski areas of New York state and Korea
• Movies and mood: an exploration of the critical variables related to mood states
• Minority group participation in recreational fishing: the role of demographics and constraints
• The economic impact of snowmobiling in Maine
• A comparison of estimates of statewide pleasure trip volume and expenditures derived from telephone versus mail surveys
• Sense of place: Mount Desert Island residents and Acadia National Park
• A typology of place attachment and activity involvement
• International students' image of rural Pennsylvania as a travel destination
• Segmenting Michigan tourists based on distance traveled
• Trip experiences and tourists' motivation
• It's real sustainable rural tourism development: case studies from the Heartland
• Scale issues in tourism development
• An empirical investigation of adventure-based incentive travel programs: exploring the relationship between benefits sought, demographic and travel behavior variables, and expected activity level
• Relationships between motivations, activities and settings: the recreation opportunity spectrum within the Delaware State Park system
• Balancing quality customer service with financial returns in privatized park services
• The development of a computerized maintenance management system at the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
• Forest industry hunt-lease programs in the south: implications for managers
• Why study values?
• Valuing wetland attributes in the Lake Champlain Basin
• Landowner values, water quality, and recreation in the Lake Champlain Basin
• Spiritually beneficial aspects of wilderness recreation experiences
• Walking through time: heritage resources within the Appalachian Trail corridor
• The effects of summer employment with Parks Canada on students' awareness of heritage
• Behavioral patterns of Muslims and Christians at the 1992 Karmeh festival: the case of Lebanon
• The effects of festival attributes upon perceptions of crowding
• Perceptions and status of Michigan as a heritage tourism state: results of an eleven-month telephone survey
• An overview of contemporary American rodeo
• Our wilderness heritage: a study of the compatibility of cultural and natural resource management
• Achieving success in trail related partnerships: the Michigan State Forest Experience
• Rural watershed partnerships: lessons from West Virginia
• Measuring the benefits of protected areas: a critical perspective on the IUCN guidelines
• Emergent issues in forest plan revision: a dialogue
• National recreation trails: an overview
• Demonstrating the value of a social science research program to a natural resource management agency
• The role of "outdoor capital" in the socialization of wildland recreationists
• Protecting and managing traditional Allagash Wilderness Waterway recreation activities
• New England's northeast recreation activity markets: trends in the 90s
• Trends in participation rates for wildlife-associated outdoor recreation activities by age and race/ethnicity: implications for cohort-component projection models
• Cognitive dimensions of recreational user experiences in wilderness: an exploratory study in Adirondack wilderness areas.
• The influence of involvement and outcome messages on consumer reference prices
• An interactive information kiosk for the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Center, Newcomb, NY
• Monitoring Appalachian Trail corridors: an example of volunteer land management
• Valuing impacts of forest quality change: recreation and New York's Allegany State Park
• Recreational user attitudes towards management strategies of Allegany State Park
• Integrating technical rock climbing into protected area management: a case example of Minnewaska State Park Preserve, New York State

Citation

Vogelsong, Hans G.; [Editor] 1998. Proceedings of the 1997 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-241. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 287 p.