Area-specific Recreation Use Estimation Using the National Visitor Use Monitoring Program Data
Area-specific Recreation Use Estimation Using the National Visitor Use Monitoring Program Data

Author: Eric M. White

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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Estimates of national forest recreation use are available at the national, regional, and forest levels via the USDA Forest Service National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) program. In some resource planning and management applications, analysts desire recreation use estimates for subforest areas within an individual national forest or for subforest areas that combine portions of several national forests. In this research note we have detailed two approaches whereby the NVUM sampling data may be used to estimate recreation use for a subforest area within a single national forest or for a subforest area combining portions of more than one national forest. The approaches differ in their data requirements, complexity, and assumptions. In the "new forest" approach, recreation use is estimated by using NVUM data obtained only from NVUM interview sites within the area of interest. In the "all-forest information" approach, recreation use is estimated by using sample data gathered on all portions of the national forest(s) that contain the area of interest.

Recreation Symposium Proceedings
Recreation Symposium Proceedings

Author: United States. Forest Service

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Designed to meet needs of forest recreation resource planners and managers. Discusses planning, developing and managing the recreation resource, characterizing recreation user, managerial considerations related to user characteristics, and future research.

Guidelines for Public Use Measurement and Reporting at Parks and Protected Areas
Guidelines for Public Use Measurement and Reporting at Parks and Protected Areas

Author: Kenneth E. Hornback

Publisher: IUCN

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 2831704766

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Visitors to parks and protected areas impact at many levels: political, economic, social and ecological. To ensure effective park management for increasing visitor numbers, good quality global data on visitor use is necessary. This manual describes terms, approaches and techniques for gathering information about public use of parks and protected areas. It covers a mixture of options ranging from direct measurements with automatic counters to indirect measurements based on simple mathematical calculations, providing a kit for producing the most accurate and sustainable enumeration of public use of protected areas under existing circumstances.