Proceedings of the 2001 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Abstract

Contains 71 articles presented at the 2001 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium which seeks to foster quality information exchange between recreation, tourism, and resource managers and researchers throughout the Northeast. The forum provides opportunities for recreation and tourism research managers from different agencies, state, and government levels, as well as those in the private sector to discuss current issues, problems, and research applications in the field. Students and all those interested in continuing education in recreation and tourism management are particularly welcome.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 2001 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

• Making research more relevant: give it a try!
• Balancing tradeoffs in the Denali Wilderness: an expanded approach to normative research using stated choice analysis
• Coping, crowding and satisfaction: a study of Adirondack wilderness hikers
• Perceived crowding at Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area
• Transportation planning and social carrying capacity in the national parks
• Assessing information needs and communication behaviors of national forest summer visitors
• The commodification process of extreme sports: the diffusion of the X-Games by ESPN
• Marketing national parks: oxymoron or opportunity?
• Wildlife-associated recreation in the North Central Region: participation patterns and management implications
• The New England travel market: generational travel patterns, 1979 to 1996
• Unique programming: an examination of the benefits of a free choice program
• Outdoor experiential-based training: motivational and environmental influences affecting outcomes
• Use of experience sampling method to understand the wilderness experience
• Encounters and the guided group trip: going "on the scene" to examine the situational interpretation of encounters
• Differences in SCUBA diver motivations based on level of development
• Skier motivations: do they change over time?
• Sociocultural perspectives of trapping revisited: a comparative analysis of activities and motives 1994 and 2000
• The impact of potential political security level on international tourism
• Future of the Korea national parks: a preliminary Delphi study of key experts
• A preliminary analysis of Florida State Park satisfaction survey data
• Recreationists in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area: a survey of user characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes
• Visitor satisfactions: backcountry and wilderness users in the White Mountain National Forest
• Participants' perceptions of the 1997-1998 Missouri State Parks Passport Program
• An evaluation of Appalachian Trail hikers' knowledge of minimum impact skills and practices
• Who cares and who acts? Different types of outdoor recreationists exhibit different levels of environmental concern and behavior
• Visitor behavior and resource impacts at Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park
• The effects of perceived leisure constraints among Korean university students
• Exploration of the influence of self-efficacy on recreation participation levels of individuals with visual impairments who use dog guides
• An integrative concept for visitor monitoring in a heavily used conservation area in the vicinity of a large city: the Danube Floodplains National Park, Vienna
• Linkages in the use of recreation environments across the urban to ex-urban spectrum by urban residents
• The role, use and benefits of natural recreation areas within and near residential subdivisions
• New York State's 1999 agritourism business study
• Rail-trails and special events: community and economic benefits
• Private business perceptions of transportation issues and the island explorer bus system at Acadia National Park, Maine
• Integrating resource, social and managerial indicators of quality into carrying capacity decision making
• Redefining roles of science in planning and management: ecology as a planning and management tool
• Elk viewing in Pennsylvania: an evolving eco-tourism system
• Competing values: a case study of Pennsylvania's elk herd as a tourism attraction
• Impacts of wildlife viewing at Dixville Notch Wildlife Viewing Area
• Effects of pretesting with the Adventure Recreation Model instrument
• Modeling nonlinear preferences
• Psychological commitment as a mediator of the relationship between involvement and loyalty
• Older Chinese women immigrants and their leisure experiences: before and after emigration to the United States
• Towards an understanding of gender differences with respect to whitewater rafting preferences
• Use and user patterns among Michigan licensed off-highway vehicles ownership types
• Recreation conflict of riparian landowners with personal watercraft and motorboat use along the New York's Great Lakes
• User preferences for social conditions on the St. Croix international waterway
• Security along the Appalachian Trail
• Trails research: where do we go from here?
• Visitor meanings of place: using computer content analysis to examine visitor meanings at three national capitol sites
• The importance of visitors' knowledge of the cultural and natural history of the Adirondacks in influencing sense of place in the high peaks region
• Attachments to places and activities: the relationship of psychological constructs to customer satisfaction attributes
• An exploration of human territoriality in forest recreation
• Community attachment and resource harvesting in rural Denmark
• The political economy of wilderness designation in Nova Scotia
• The Westfield River Watershed Interactive Atlas: mapping recreation data on the web
• Park resources as an essential to urban societies
• Parks and recreation employment status: implications from a civil service perspective
• Natural resources interpretation: the role of researchers a new-old approach
• Mountain bike trail compaction relation to selected physical parameters
• Internet & branding: a perfect match or a fatal attraction? Analysis of fifty states of the U.S. official tourism websites
• Job satisfaction among recreation practitioners
• Extensity and intensity of grants usage in obtaining funding for recreation services and capital improvement projects among park and recreation agencies in the State of Michigan
• Resident camp directors, spirituality, and wilderness
• Social groups preferences relation to motivations and ability levels of whitewater kayakers
• Human preference for ecological units: patterns of dispersed campsites within landtype associations on the Chippewa National Forest
• Creating recreation partnerships on private agricultural and forest land in the urban northeast: a case study from the great meadows of the Connecticut River
• Applied research opportunities in developed campgrounds
• Adapting the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) for states lands planning
• It's time to put the C.A.R.T. before the H.O.R.S.E. or putting critical, analytical, and reflective thinking before

Citation

Todd, Sharon. Comp, ed. 2002. Proceedings of the 2001 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-289. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 457 p.