Natural Resources Recreation Reference Resources
Recreation Literature
- Journals. The following list includes both
print and online fulltext journals available through the HSU Library. Check
the Journal and Newspaper
Finder for exact holdings and location.
- Magazines & Newsletters
- Conference Proceedings
- Conference on Research & Resource Management in Parks and on Public
Lands (George Wright Society) (held every 2 years)
- International Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Trends Symposium (formerly
National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium) (held every 5 years)
- National Trails Symposium Proceedings (held every 2 years)
- Social Aspects and Recreation Research Symposium
- World Wilderness Congress Proceedings
Reference Materials
- Guides
- "Guide to the Social Science Literature in Outdoor Recreation" IN Studies
in Outdoor Recreation: Search and Research for Satisfaction (Manning)
1999 (GV 191.6 M314 1999)
- A Guide to Women's Studies in the Outdoors: A Review of the Literature
and Research with Annotated Bibliography (Roberts) 1998 (ERIC
microfiche ED 433983) Compiles over 100 research studies and papers about
women in experiential education and recreation in the natural environment.
- Wilderness Preservation: A Reference Handbook (Rosenberg)
1994 (ref QH 76 R66 1994) Includes an overview and chronology of wilderness
preservation in the United States, biographical sketches of prominent
people, directory of protected lands, federal agencies and private organizations,
and a bibliography of wilderness books and media resources.
- Directories
- American
Trails: State-by-State (American Trails) Contains links to trails
of all kinds in each state.
- National
Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) Database (Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute) Searchable database containing information on all
638 wilderness areas in the United States.
- Park Search
(L.L. Bean) Worldwide directory of parks. Search by park name or by geography.
Park annotations include contacts and type of outdoor activities available.
- Parks Directory of the United States (Smith) 2001 (ref
E 160 S65 2001) Includes 4,700 parks, historic sites, and other recreation
areas administered by national and state agencies.
- Recreation.Gov: Recreation Opportunities
on Federal Lands Guide to Federal recreation sites and opportunities.
- Trails.com (Trails.com) Commerical
site that provides descriptions and maps for 35,000 trails in the United
States. Trail descriptions come from 1,000 guidebooks and from user comments.
Requires membership for full descriptions.
- World Heritage List (UNESCO)
Directory of world heritage sites worldwide.
- Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- Encyclopedia of Ecotourism (Weaver) 2001 (ref G 156.5
E26 E53 2001)
- Encyclopedia of Leisure and Outdoor Recreation (Jenkins
and Pigram) 2003 (ref GV 11 E55 2003) Includes "approximately 500
short entries concerning concepts, theories, methods, issues and practices
encountered by people researching, participating, and working in leisure
and outdoor recreation around the globe."
- Glossary
of Terms: Trails, Greenway, and Outdoor Recreation Terms (National
Trails Training Partnership) 2001
- Bibliographies
- Annotated Bibliography of Non-motorized Trails Literature
(Duffy) 1989 (GV 199.4 .A66 1989)
- Annotated
Bibliography on River Recreation (Anderson, Leatherberry and Lime)
1978 (USFS General Technical Report NC-41) (print copy available in Docs
A 13.88: NC-41) Includes 300 citations documenting various aspects of
the river recreation.
- Attitudes Toward the Outdoors: An Annotated Bibliography of US
Survey and Poll Research Concerning the Environment, Wildlife, and Recreation
(Jolma) 1994 (GE 150 J65 1994) Includes 850 annotated citations to surveys
and polls that reveal how Americans view the natural world.
- Bibliography
of Forest Service Recreation Research 1983-1992 (Daigle) 1993 (US
Forest Service General Technical Report NE 180) (print copy available
in Docs A 13.88:NE180) updates Recreation Research Publications:
Bibliography 1961-1982 (Echelberger & Gilroy) 1983 (Docs A 13.11/2:R24/961-82)
and Forest Research Bibliography of Forest Service Outdoor Recreation
Research Publications 1942 through 1966 and its supplements (Docs
A 13.11/2:R24).
- Bibliography
Related to Recreation Fees on Public Land (McCollum and Puttkammer)
2004
- Changing Wilderness Values, 1930-1990: An Annotated Bibliography
(Elbers) 1991 (GF 80 E54 1991)
- Effects of Recreation
on Rocky Mountain Wildlife: Online Bibliography (Montana Chapter of
the Wildlife Society)
- Impacts of Backcountry Recreation: Site Management and Rehabilitation:
An Annotated Bibliography (Cole & Schreiner) 1981 (US Forest Service
General Technical Report INT-121) (Docs A 13.88:INT-121)
- Linking Wilderness Research and Managment: an Annotated Reading
List. Vol
1-- Wilderness Fire Restoration and Management; Vol.
2--Defining, Managing, and Monitoring Wilderness Visitor Experiences;
and Vol. 3--Recreation
Fees in Wilderness and Other Public Lands (Wright) 2001 (print copies
available in Docs A 13.88:RMRS-79) (US Forest Service General Technical
Report RMRS-79) Guide to research publications on the protection and restoration
of wildernss and wilderness values.
- Nonconsumptive Outdoor Recreation: An Annotated Bibliography of
Human-Wildlife Interactions (Boyle, Samson) 1983 (Docs I 49.15/3:252)
(US Fish & Wildlife Service Special Scientific Report--Wildlife #252)
- National Recreation Database (Leisure
Information Network) Database of unpublished "gray" literature that includes
selective online fulltext; search by keyword or browse by topic. Requires
free registration.
- Trail Planning,
Construction and Maintenance: A Bibliography (University of Minnesota
Forestry Library) Indexes publications relating to the planning, design,
construction, maintenance, and age of all types of trails from 1984 to
the present.
- Wilderness
Library (Wilderness Information Network) Searchable database of wilderness
research; some publications are available online in fulltext format.
- Handbooks & Manuals
- Assessing Recreation
Demand (Metropolitan Area Planning Council)
- NPS Trails Management Handbook (US National Park Service)
1988 (Docs I 29.9/2 T68/3)
- Outdoor Recreation: United States National Parks, Forests, and
Public Lands (Zinser) 1995 (Ref GV 191.4 Z56 1995) Presents an
overview of the federal recreation system, its historical evolution, methods
of management and development, and the different roles played by the major
agencies with recreation responsibilities--National Park Service, the
Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Land
Management. It explores concepts in land-use planning, examines relevant
federal legislation, and presents concepts for preserving amenity resources.
Also covered are the recreational resources of smaller federal agencies,
including the Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and
the Tennessee Valley Authority. Includes extensive appendices containing
relevant data tables and directories.
- Guide To Designing
and Conducting Visitor Surveys (Leones) 1998 Provides basic information
about conducting visitor surveys It can be used by individuals or organizations
who are interested in tourism either to design and conduct their own surveys
or as a basis for putting together a request for proposals for others
to do such a survey
- Guidelines for Public Use Measurement and Reporting at Parks,
and Protected Areas (Hornback and Eagles) 1999 (SB 486 P83 H67
1999) Prepared for the World Commission on Protected Areas this manual
describes terms, approaches and techniques for gathering information about
public use of parks and protected areas.
- Recreation Site Survey Manual : Methods and Techniques for Conducting
Visitor Surveys (University of Edinburgh. Tourism and Recreation
Research Unit) 1983 (GV181.46 R43)
- Sampling and Estimating
Recreational Use (Gregoire & Buhyoff) 1999 (US Forest Service General
Technical Report PNW-456) (print copy available in Docs A 13.88:PNW-456)
- Studies in Outdoor Recreation: Search and Research
for Satisfaction (Manning) 1999 (GV 191.6 M314 1999) Reviews,
synthesizes,and integrates the social science literature on outdoor recreation.
Includes over 1,000 references.
- Tourism Marketing and Management Handbook (Witt and Moutinho)
1994 (G 155 A1 T5924 1999)
- Trail Planning and Layout (Ashbaugh & Kordish) 1971 (SK
601 A8 1971)
- Trails
Management Handbook (US Forest Service) (FSH 2309.18) (print copy
available in Docs A 13.36/2:FSH 2309.18)
- Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Research: a Handbook for Managers
and Researchers (Ritchie and Goeldner) 1994 (G 155 A1 T6578 1994)
- Wilderness Recreation Use Estimation: A Handbook of Methods and
Systems (Watson) 2000 (US Forest Service General Technical Report
RMRS-56) (Docs A 13.88:RMRS-56)
- Legal Resources
- See the Environmental/Natural Resources Law
research guide for general materials.
- National Park Service
Legislation and Current
Legislative and Congressional Affairs (US National Park Service) Contains
a digest of relevant legislation, timelime and current legislative action
and congressional information of interest to the National Park Service;
- "NRPA Law Review" monthly column in the periodical Parks & Recreation
(Periodical GV 1 P3)
- Recreation and Parks Law Reporter (Periodical KF 5638
A59 R42) Digests court cases related to recreation and personal injury
litigation.
- Wilderness
Act Handbook (Wilderness Society) 2004. Contains relevant laws, regulations,
and policies that govern the creation, expansion, and management of the
National Wilderness Preservation System. The Wilderness Act is printed
in its entirety, along with interpretation and excerpts from and analysis
of subsequent legislation that has influenced the designation or management
of wilderness.
- Wilderness
Laws: Permitted and Prohibited Uses (Gorte and Congressional Research
Service) 2006
- Wilderness
Legislation and Policy (Wilderness.net)
- Statistics & Data
- California
Visitor Statistics (California Division of Tourism)
- Lifestyle Market Analyst: a Reference Guide for Consumer Market
Analysis (SRDS and Equifax) Annual (Ref HF 5415.33 U6 L54) Correlates
75 lifestyle interests with demographic information for 210 Designated
Market Areas (DMAs) in the United States. Section 1 provides lifestyle
and demographic market profiles for all DMAs. Section 2 provides a demographic
profile of each lifestyle, lists related lifestyles and ranks each DMA
by the lifestyle. Section 3 lists the lifestyle characteristics of each
demographically unique household, lists related lifestyles and ranks each
DMA by the demographic characteristic. Outdoor lifestyles include boating/sailing,
camping/hiking, fishing, horseback riding, hunting/shooting, recreational
vehicles, and wildlife/environmental.
- National Parks Visits
Statistics (Rand California) (HSU users only) Presents the number
and type of visits to U.S. national parks, monuments, recreation areas,
and other federal wilderness areas in California and other states and
territories from 1979 to the present. The source for these data is the
Land Resource Division of the U.S. National Park Service.
- National Survey
of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (US Fish &
Wildlife Service and US Census Bureau) (print copy available in Docs I
49.98/2) National survey conducted about every five years since 1955 that
provides information on the number of participants in fishing, hunting,
and wildlife watching (observing, photographing, and feeding wildlife),
and the amount of time and money spent on these activities.
- National
Survey on Recreation and the Environment (US Forest Service) Ongoing
series of national recreation surveys that began in 1960
with the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission (ORRRC) survey.
Additional surveys were conducted in 1965, 1970, 1972, 1977, 1982-83,
1994-95
and 1999-2000. The most recent NSRE survey in 1999/2000 is a phone survey
of 50,000 households across all ethnic groups throughout the United States.
It provides comprehensive coverage of both long and short term recreation
trends at both national and state levels. Questions address such areas
as participation in 50 outdoor recreation activities, demographics, household
structure, lifestyles, environmental attitudes, natural resource values,
constraints to participation, and attitudes toward management policies.
Findings from the 1999/2000 NSRE survey are presented in Outdoor
Recreation for 21st Century America : a Report to the Nation, the National
Survey on Recreation and the Environment (Cordell) 2004 (GV 191.4
O983 2004. Recreation
& Tourism Statistics Updates are available since the last survey.
- State Park Acreage
(Rand California) (HSU users only) Contains the names and acreage of state
parks throughout California. It also contains the share of total county
land acreage by each park.
- Statistics on Outdoor Recreation (Clawson & Van Doren)
1984 (ref GV 191.4 S73 1984 and bookstacks) Attempts to incorporate all
available statistics on outdoor recreation in the United States. Statistical
time series cover the earliest period of record through 1982.
- US National Park Service - Public Use Statistics Office contains
links to statistical reports and databases containing visitation data.
This includes recent years of the National Park Statistical
Abstract (print copies available also in Docs I 29.2:St2/8 and Docs
I 29.114). For the years 1904-1976 see Public Use of the National
Park System (Docs I 29.63).
- US National
Parks Acreage (Rand California) (HSU users only) Contains the names
and acreage of national parks and monuments thorughout the U.S. It also
contains the share of total state land acreage by each park.
- Wilderness:
Overview and Statistics (Congressional Research Service)
- Wilderness Visitors
and Recreation Impacts: Baseline Data Available for Twentieth Century
Conditions (Cole and Wright) 2003 (print copy available in Docs A
13.88: RMRS 117) (USFS General Technical Report RMRS-GTR-117) Compilation
and assessment of recreation monitoring data on campsite impact, trail
impact, and visitor characteristics that has been gathered
from individual wilderness areas of the National Wilderness Preservation
System (NWPS). Includes both published and unpublished sources.
Appendices include type of data collected and methods used, wilderness
area from which data is gathered, and a bibliography of the studies cited.
It is also available as a searchable Wilderness
Visitor and Recreation Impact Database from the Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute.
- Reviews and Assessments
- Outdoor Recreation in American Life: A National Assessment of
Demand and Supply Trends (Cordell) 1999 (GV 191.4 O864 1999) Comprehensive
assessment of the trends, current situation and future of outdoor recreation
supply and demand. Responds to the "Renewable Resources Assessment" required
in the Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act of 1974.
Chapter VII - Demand For and Supply Of Wilderness and Chapter VIII
- Wilderness Uses, Users, Values, and Management are available
online.
- "Wilderness Use and User Characteristics: a State-of- Knowledge
Review" (Rooggenbuck and Lucas) IN Proceeding--National Wilderness
Research Conference: Issues, State-of-Knowledge, Future Directions,
Fort Collins, CO, July 23-26, 1985 (Lucas ) 1987, pp. 204-245
(Docs A13.88:INT-220) (USFS General Technical Report INT-220) Reviews
research focusing on methods of collecting wilderness use and user data,
basic demographic descriptions of wilderness visitors, characteristics
of wilderness visits, and trends and projections of use and users
- Geospatial Resources (Atlases, Maps, GIS, Imagery)
Internet Subject Guides/Portals/Gateways
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