Proceedings of the 2003 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Abstract

Contains articles presented at the 2003 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Contents cover planning issues, communications and information, management presentations, service quality and outdoor recreation, recreation behavior, founders? forum, featured posters, tourism and the community, specialized recreation, recreation and the community, management issues in outdoor recreation, meanings and places, constraints, modeling, recreation users, water-based recreation, and recreation marketing. Individual papers can be accessed via Treesearch.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 2003 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

• The Implications of Demographic Change in Metropolitan Areas for the Use of Recreation Sites
• Consideration of Property Risk Reduction at the Time of Home Purchase by Wildland-Urban Interface Home Owners
• Computer Simulation as a Tool for Developing Alternatives for Managing Crowding at Wilderness Campsites on Isle Royaleome
• Indicators and Standards of Quality at an Urban-Proximate Park: Litter and Graffiti at Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
• ?We?re Trying to Make This Picture Come Alive Again?: An Examination of How Site History is Presented to School Groups at Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, Chittenango, New York
• 300 Years Makes a Difference: Using Focus Groups to Improve Recreation Management Efforts
• Recreation Visitor Inventories: Key Information for Capacity Management
• Methodological and Conceptual Issues in the Development of Customer Service Measures for the National Recreational Reservation Service
• Standards of Quality for Traffic Congestion in Parks: An Empirical Study of the Blue Ridge Parkway
• Consumptive Attitudes and Customer Service Perceptions Among New England Anglers
• Does Distance Matter? Differences in Characteristics, Behaviors and Attitudes of Visitors
• Assessment of Overnight User Behavior in the High Peaks Wilderness Area: Strategies for Trends Analysis
• A Comparison of Residents and Non-Residents on Perceptions of Off Road Vehicle Use and Carrying Capacity
• Perspectives, Retrospectives and Prospectives: NERR in Its 15TH Year
• Indian Students? Perception of Rural West Bengal as a Tourist Destination
• New England Recreational Fishers? Attitudes Toward Marine Protected Areas: A Preliminary Investigation
• The Impact of Wildland Fire Reduction Techniques on Attitudes Toward Fuels Mitigation: A Comparison of Special Use Cabin Permittees and Other Home Owners Living near a National Forest
• Changing Ethnic Populations in the State of Michigan: Ethnic Input in Leisure Services Provision Among Michigan Park Recreation Departments
• The Media Dichotomy of Sports Heroes and Sport Celebrities: The Marketing of Professional Women?s Tennis Players
• The Social Benefits of Saltwater Recreational Fishing
• Traffic Congestion and Tourist Displacement in the NH Route 1A/1B Corridor: Does Sampling Method Matter?
• Ethnic Tourism Development in Yunnan, China: Revisiting Butler?s Tourist Area Lifecycle
• Perceptions of Tourism Development: The Case of Micanopy, Florida
• University and Small Tourism Business Partnerships: The Case of Isle of Shoals Steamship and UNH?s Tourism Planning and Development Program
• Guided Birding Tours: An Examination of the Market, Important Tour Parameters, and Participant Demographics
• Measuring Birdwatcher Preferences Through Importance-Performance Analysis
• Only ?Real Divers? Use New York?s Great Lakes
• Flying Fun: An Exploratory Examination of Serious Leisure
• Solitude, Nature, and Cities
• Web-Based Surveys in Outdoor Recreation Planning: A New Hampshire Case Study
• Open Space Planning and the Massachusetts Community Preservation Act
• Environmental Response to Natural Resource Management Regimes: Twenty Years of Visitor Impacts in the Bob Marshall Wilderness
• Predictors of Personal Responsibility to Protect the Marine Environment Among Scuba Divers
• Non-Consumptive Outdoor Recreation, Activity Meaning, and Environmental Concern
• Environmental Sensitivity and Youthful Participation in Outdoor Recreation
• Attitudes Toward Fees and Perceptions of Costs of Participating in Day-Use Outdoor Recreation
• Community Perceptions of Wildland Fire Risk and Fire Hazard Reduction Strategies at the Wildland ? Urban Interface in the Northeastern United States
• Outdoor Recreation and the Quabbin Reservoir: An Exercise in Political Maneuvering
• Past Use History and Place Bonding Among Avid Trout Anglers
• A Procedure for Improving the Accuracy of Visitor Counts at State Parks
• A Quantitative Synthesis of Place Attachment Research: Investigating Past Experience and Place Attachment
• An Examination of the Relationship Between Leisure Constraints, Involvement, and Commitment
• Possibility of Refining the Hierarchical Model of Leisure Constraints Through Cross-Cultural Research
• Gender-Based Constraints to Sportfishing Participation in the Eastern Lake Ontario Area
• The Social Values of Wilderness
• Segmenting of Empirical Estimates of Choice Models
• A Predictive Model of Recreational Beach Use in Southern California
• Acceptable Number of User Encounters: A Study of Adirondack and Great Gulf Wilderness Hikers
• Michigan Marine Safety Program Assessment
• Differences in Motivations and Expectations of Divers in the Florida Keys
• A Comparison of Activity-Specific and Nonactivity-Specific Importance and Management Preferences Among Three Specialization Groups of Trout and Bass Anglers
• The Impact of License Fees on Pennsylvania Trout Anglers? Participation
• The Impact of Recreational Crabbing on North Carolina?s Crab Population
• Recreation Specialization: Upper Manistee River Shoreline Owner Anglers and their Management Preferences
• A Market Analysis of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie
• Older Adults: A Unique Market for the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area?
• An Examination of Satisfaction Variables and Indicators at a First-Time Festival
• Serving Maps on the Internet: A Recreation and Tourism Example
• The Relationship Between Evaluative Standards of Quality and Existing Conditions in Parks and Protected Areas

Citation

Murdy, James, comp., ed. 2004. Proceedings of the 2003 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-317. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station. 459 p.