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“Changing Relationships With Wilderness: A New Focus For Research And Stewardship, William T. Borrie, Robert G. Dvorak
“Changing Relationships With Wilderness: A New Focus For Research And Stewardship, William T. Borrie, Robert G. Dvorak
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
Wilderness managers strive to provide quality recreation experiences. Because of this commitment, a need exists to further incorporate experiential aspects into current planning and management frameworks. This article suggests a focus on relationships with wilderness, moving beyond the examination of single transactions with a setting toward a consideration of the dynamic engagements visitors accumulate with wilderness over time. Understanding these relationships relative to social and cultural change may allow managers to incorporate diverse meanings into management planning and provide better protection of wilderness character
Describing Change In Visitors And Visits To The “Bob”, William T. Borrie, Stephen Mccool
Describing Change In Visitors And Visits To The “Bob”, William T. Borrie, Stephen Mccool
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
Understanding wilderness use and users is essential to wilderness management. However, there have only been a limited number of studies specifically designed to detect changes in use and user characteristics across time. Recreation use of the U.S. National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) has increased since its creation in 1964, along with many other changes in influences on society’s relationship with wilderness. This article describes a series of visitor trend studies at the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex in Montana, and identifies some of the challenges encountered in estimating long-term use and user trends.
Trust In Wildland Fire And Fuel Management Decisions, William T. Borrie, Adam Liljeblad
Trust In Wildland Fire And Fuel Management Decisions, William T. Borrie, Adam Liljeblad
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
Public land managers are stewards of public lands and of the relationship between the public and these lands. Maintaining one aspect of this relationship, trust in the agency, can be challenging. Lack of trust can influence public response to management decisions, including about wildland fire use. By considering the factors that influence trust, managers can be more effective in accomplishing fire stewardship objectives.
Wildland Fire Effects On Visits And Visitors To The Bob Marshal Wilderness Complex, William T. Borrie, Stephen Mccool, Joshua G. Whitmore
Wildland Fire Effects On Visits And Visitors To The Bob Marshal Wilderness Complex, William T. Borrie, Stephen Mccool, Joshua G. Whitmore
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
Wildland fire can affect wilderness visits and scientific efforts to understand visitor relationships with wilderness places. Large-scale and long-lasting fires occurred in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, Montana, in 2003. A study of visitors that year to monitor long-term trends in visit and visitor characteristics was repeated in 2004 to fully understand how the 2003 fires affected trend analysis. This article considers the question of how wildland fire changes the relationship people have with wilderness, particularly related to their visits and visitor attitudes toward fire management.
Why Primitive Experiences In Wilderness?, William T. Borrie
Why Primitive Experiences In Wilderness?, William T. Borrie
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
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Winter Visitors To Yellowstone National Park, Their Value Orientations And Support For Management Actions, William T. Borrie, Wayne A. Freimund, Mae A. Davenport
Winter Visitors To Yellowstone National Park, Their Value Orientations And Support For Management Actions, William T. Borrie, Wayne A. Freimund, Mae A. Davenport
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
The idea of a National Park contains a diversity of values and missions. This paper takes a multi-dimensional, context- specific approach to measuring the perceived values of Yellowstone National Park. It is an initial step in recording how perceptions of National Parks are changing over time. Responses of 1064 winter visitors to 24 park value items were factor and cluster analyzed to produce four groups. Examination of the relationship between cluster membership and support / opposition to a variety of management actions showed significant differences for all 19 proposed actions. Groups of visitors with different value orientations showed correspondingly different …
Approaches To Measuring Quality Of The Wilderness Experience, William T. Borrie, Robert M. Birzell
Approaches To Measuring Quality Of The Wilderness Experience, William T. Borrie, Robert M. Birzell
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
Wilderness is a special place that provides opportunity for unique and profound experiences. An essential task for the maintenance of these recreational opportunities is the definition and monitoring of experience quality. Four approaches to the measurement of the wilderness experience have developed in over 30 years of research: satisfaction approaches (which focus on evaluation of onsite conditions), benefits-based approaches (focusing on psychological outcomes), experience-based approaches (describing cognitive states experienced in wilderness), and meanings-based approaches (documenting socially constructed meanings ascribed to the experience). Each approach has its strengths and weaknesses. Given that the wilderness experience is a multifaceted phenomenon, it is …
The Problem Of Verbal Reports In Recreation Research: Review, Recommendations, And New Directions, Bill Borrie
The Problem Of Verbal Reports In Recreation Research: Review, Recommendations, And New Directions, Bill Borrie
Society and Conservation Faculty Publications
Recent work of cognitive and social psychologists has questioned the ability of subjects to accurately remember and report their experiences. This has particular significance for recreation research as the survey questions we ask of visitors change from more stable visit and group characteristics to reports of conditions, experiences and feelings. Strategies exist to encourage accurate recall, particlarly by minimizing the delay between event and report such as is provided by the Experience Sampling Method.