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Title: Proceedings of the 2008 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium

Author: Klenosky, David B.; Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc; eds.

Year: 2009

Publication: Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-42. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 356 p. Online only.

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
Larson, Lincoln R.; Green, Gary T.; Castleberry, Steven B.
Visitor perceptions of the benefits of local park
Kerstetter, Deborah; Mowen, Andrew; Trauntvein, Nathan; Leichty, Toni; Rubiero, Nuno
Active transportation among elementary-aged students: walking or biking to and from school
Knollenberg, Whitney; Latkova, Pavlina; Vogt, Christine; Rodriguez, Ariel
Interrelationship of motivation for and perceived constraints to physical activity participation and the well-being of senior center participants
Miyake, Motoko; Rodgers, Ellen
Visitor perceptions of and support for management actions at an urban national historic site
Strack, Julie A.; Miller, Craig A.
The spatial relationship between exurban development and designated wilderness lands in the contiguous United States
Ginn, Allison L.; Green, Gary T.; Nibbelink, Nathan P.; Cordell, H. Ken
Increasing walking at the C&O Canal National Historical Park: an intervention focused on local employees
Smaldone, Dave
Research roundtable on health, parks, recreation, and tourism
Bricker, Kelly S.; Leahy, Jessica; Smaldone, Dave; Mowen, Andrew; Pierskalla, Chad
Values and motivations of private forest owners in the United States: a framework based on open-ended responses in the national woodland owner survey
Bengston, David N.; Butler, Brett J.; Asah, Stanley T.
Listening to your audience: developing an educational tool to assist with recreation planning on private lands
van Dijk, J. Daniel; Green, Gary T.; Miller, Craig A.
Tourism marketing: the best there is--a study of West Virginia
Thorn, Stephanie L.; Ramthun, Roy
The Ginghai-Tibet railway and Tibet tourism: travelers' perspectives
Su, Ming Ming; Wall, Geoffrey
Local residents' attitudes toward potential tourism development: the case of Ansted, West Virginia
Bender, Maureen Y.; Deng, Jinyang; Selin, Steve; Arbogast, Doug; Hobbs, R.A.
Tourism package preferences of West Virginia state park visitors
Gravley, William; Dengler, John; Ramthun, Roy; Pierskalla, Chad
Social factors shaping the formation of a multi-stakeholder trails network group for the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia
Robinson, Karen; Selin, Steven; Pierskalla, Chad
Partnerships and volunteers in the U.S. Forest Service
Absher, James D.
An analysis of local stakeholder values for tropical protected areas in Madagascar
Dennis, Donald F.; Masozera, Michel
I want to join the zoo! A conjoint study of membership program preferences
Klenosky, David B.; Oh, Chi-Ok; Panek, Christopher C.; Luebke, Jerry F.
Indicators and standards of quality across space and time, as reflected in a study in Acadian National Park, Maine
Anderson, Laura E.; Manning, Robert E.; Valliere, William A.
An exploratory analysis of coping schemes used by paddlers who camped in the St. Regis Canoe Area, New York
Probst, Blake M.; Schuster, Rudy M.; Dawson, Chad P.
New England's travel and tourism markets: trends in geographic target markets beyond the 90s--the y2k decade
Warnick, Rodney B.
Eco-medical tourism: can it be sustainable?
Bristow, Robert S.
Bridging an interdisciplinary gap: a case for uniting tourism and urban planning for a consistent understanding of the
Bosley, Holly E.; Brothers, Gene L.
Sense of place in outdoor-pursuits trip groups
Todd, Sharon L.; Young, Anderson B.; Anderson, Lynn S.; O'Connell, Timothy S.; Breunig, Mary
Getting the engine started: motivations for participation in a university outdoor recreation program
Sharp, Ryan L.; Miller, Craig A.
Testing a new scale of place identity in the Texas Hill Country
Lai, Po-Hsin; Shafer, C. Scott; Kyle, Gerard
Reassessing the causal structure of enduring involvement
Jun, Jinhee; Kyle, Gerard T.; Absher, James D.; Hammitt, William E.
The relationship between place bonding and social trust, as explored in a study in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas
Wynveen, Christopher J.; Kyle, Gerard T.; Theodori, Gene L.
Crowding at Cape Lookout National Seashore: an examination of the influence of visitor characteristics on encounter norms and perceived crowding
Graefe, David Alan; Vogelsong, Hans
Wilderness, wildness, and visitor access to Cumberland Island National Seashore, Georgia
Sharp, Ryan L.; Miller, Craig A.
Perceptions of self-drive tourists along the Alaska-Canada border toward the increased security requirements of the western hemisphere travel initiative
Palso, Nicholas
A comparison of motivations between island tourists visiting Penghu, Taiwan, and Phuket, Thailand
Hsieh, Chi-Ming; Park, Sung Hee
An examination of gambling impacts at an upstate New York college
Zhang, Lin; Dong, Erwei; Stormann, Wayne
Modeling the effects of study abroad programs on college students
Yu, Alvin H.; Chick, Garry E.; Morais, Duarte B.; Lin, Chung-Hsien
Using destination image to predict visitors' intention to revisit three Hudson River Valley, New York, communities
Schuster, Rudy M.; Sullivan, Laura; Morais, Duarte; Kuehn, Diane
Behavioral intentions within off-highway vehicle communities in the northeastern U.S.: an application of the theory of planned behavior
D'Luhosch, Peter; Kuehn, Diane; Schuster, Rudy M.
Research to guide trail management at Acadia National Park, Maine
Goonan, Kelly; Manning, Robert; Valliere, William
The relationships between anglers' risk perception, sensation-seeking, and fishing site choice along the northeast and Yilan Coast Scenic Area, Taiwan
Wang, Cheng-Ping
Visitor use patterns and satisfaction along the Rogue-Umpqua Scenic Byway, Oregon
Shrestha, Suresh K.; Burns, Robert C.; Graefe, Alan R.; Gaydos, Kevin R.
Keeping our charm: residents, growth, and quality of life issues in a small but growing Texas coastal community
Lu, Jiaying; Schuett, Michael A.
Identifying the effects of cognitive, affective, and behavioral components on residents' attitudes toward place marketing
Kwon, Jeamok; Vogt, Christine
Exploring the crowding-satisfaction relationship between day and overnight users in the lower Colorado River Basin, Texas
Tseng, Yung-Ping; Kyle, Gerard T.; Shafer, C. Scott; Graefe, Alan R.; Bradle, Timothy A.
Research to support analysis and management of carrying capacity at Lake Umbagog National Wildlife Refuge, New Hampshire and Maine
Valliere, William; Robert, Manning
Campers' perspectives about boating in the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest, New York
Kuehn, Diane; Schuster, Rudy
Finding Artemis: pathways for recruiting and constraints to retaining female hunters
Martin, Nevena; Miller, Craig A.
Deer hunting and television: are tv shows creating expectations among deer hunters?
Agee, Joshua D.; Miller, Craig A.
A comparison of agritourism and other farm entrepreneurs: implications for future tourism and sociological research on agritourism
Barbieri, Carla
Northern Virginia wineries: understanding visitor motivations for market segmentation
Geide, Cammeral; Harmon, Laurie; Baker, Robert

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.

Last Modified: 5/11/2009

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