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View article: A national model for estimating United States public land visitation
A national model for estimating United States public land visitation Open
Public land management relies on accurate visitor counts in order to understand and mitigate environmental impacts and to quantify the value of ecosystem services provided by natural areas. We build and test predictive visitation models su…
View article: Relative recreation use in National Forest System firesheds from 2015-2023
Relative recreation use in National Forest System firesheds from 2015-2023 Open
This data publication contains vector data, provided as a shapefile and a geopackage, representing relative visitation estimated at the fireshed level within each unit and region of the National Forest System (NFS). This includes all lands…
View article: A National Model for Estimating US Public Land Visitation
A National Model for Estimating US Public Land Visitation Open
Public land management relies on accurate visitor counts in order to understand and mitigate environmental impacts and to quantify the value of ecosystem services provided by natural areas. We built and tested predictive visitation models …
View article: The influence of wildfire risk reduction programs and practices on recreation visitation
The influence of wildfire risk reduction programs and practices on recreation visitation Open
Background The increasing extent and severity of uncharacteristic wildfire has prompted numerous policies and programs promoting landscape-scale fuels reduction. Aims We used novel data sources to measure how recreation was influenced by f…
View article: Annual visitation and economic benefits of recreation from 2017-2022 estimated for Forest Service lands within ten initial investment landscapes of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy
Annual visitation and economic benefits of recreation from 2017-2022 estimated for Forest Service lands within ten initial investment landscapes of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy Open
This data publication contains vector data (shapefile and geopackage) representing visitation and economic benefits estimated at the fireshed level within the ten initial investment landscapes of the USDA Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Str…
View article: 134 Advancing your OH program from good to great with AIHA/ACGIH principles of good practice with examples in pharmaceutical industry
134 Advancing your OH program from good to great with AIHA/ACGIH principles of good practice with examples in pharmaceutical industry Open
The AIHA and ACGIH Principles of Good OH Practice initiative is a 4-pronged approach for establishing peer reviewed guidance for defining the OH science and research initiatives that are most relevant to OH practice, establishing minimum r…
View article: Novel data in recreation monitoring—Summary proceedings from interagency workshops in 2019 and 2023
Novel data in recreation monitoring—Summary proceedings from interagency workshops in 2019 and 2023 Open
First posted March 25, 2024 For additional information, contact: Director, Fort Collins Science CenterU.S. Geological Survey2150 Centre Ave., Bldg. CFort Collins, CO 80526-8118 Two interagency workshops were held in 2019 and 2023 in Fort C…
View article: A text-messaging chatbot to support outdoor recreation monitoring through community science
A text-messaging chatbot to support outdoor recreation monitoring through community science Open
Public land managers depend on reliable and readily available data about outdoor recreation in parks and greenspaces. However, traditional recreation monitoring techniques including visitor surveying and counting cannot be implemented over…
View article: Implementing principles of sustainable recreation
Implementing principles of sustainable recreation Open
Staff on the Entiat Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state partnered with researchers to develop a strategy to improve the sustainability of the district’s recreation program. The need to pursue a sus…
View article: Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests
Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests Open
After a century of intensive logging, federal forest management policies were developed in the 1990s to protect remaining large trees and old forests in the western US. Today, due to rapidly changing ecological conditions, new threats and …
View article: Binding Waste as Book History
Binding Waste as Book History Open
n this article the Author examines binding waste made from the earliest editions of Donatus’ Ars minor (a Latin grammar printed in Mainz during the 1450s and ’60s) to contextualize his earlier conclusions regarding at least 15 copies of th…
View article: Next-generation Visitation Models using Social Media to Estimate Recreation on Public Lands
Next-generation Visitation Models using Social Media to Estimate Recreation on Public Lands Open
Outdoor and nature-based recreation provides countless social benefits, yet public land managers often lack information on the spatial and temporal extent of recreation activities. Social media is a promising source of data to fill informa…
View article: Parallel Subjective Well-Being and Choice Experiment Evaluation of Ecosystem Services: Marine and Forest Reserves in Coastal Oregon, USA
Parallel Subjective Well-Being and Choice Experiment Evaluation of Ecosystem Services: Marine and Forest Reserves in Coastal Oregon, USA Open
There is significant policy and research interest in (a) ecosystem services as a framework for understanding the benefits humans receive from natural systems and (b) subjective well-being as a lens for understanding the effects of public p…
View article: A Review of the Forest Service's National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) Program
A Review of the Forest Service's National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) Program Open
The National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) program data underlies estimates of the volume of recreation use of the National Forest System. The data also enable estimation of both the local economic contributions and nonmarket benefits of t…
View article: Use of Science and Modeling by Practitioners in Landscape-Scale Management Decisions
Use of Science and Modeling by Practitioners in Landscape-Scale Management Decisions Open
Scientific knowledge and tools have central roles in contemporary federal forest programs that promote restoration in large landscapes and across ownerships. Although we know much about the role of science in decisionmaking and ways that s…
View article: Current Challenges and Realities For Forest-based Businesses Adjacent to Public Lands in the United States
Current Challenges and Realities For Forest-based Businesses Adjacent to Public Lands in the United States Open
Through contracting and timber sales, the private sector is engaged in management of national forest lands and local community economies in the United States. But there is little recent research about current relationships between these la…
View article: Diversity in forest management to reduce wildfire losses: implications for resilience
Diversity in forest management to reduce wildfire losses: implications for resilience Open
This study investigates how federal, state, and private corporate forest owners in a fire-prone landscape of southcentral Oregon manage their forests to reduce wildfire hazard and loss to high-severity wildfire. We evaluate the implication…
View article: Using an agent-based model to examine forest management outcomes in a fire-prone landscape in Oregon, USA
Using an agent-based model to examine forest management outcomes in a fire-prone landscape in Oregon, USA Open
Fire-prone landscapes present many challenges for both managers and policy makers in developing adaptive behaviors and institutions. We used a coupled human and natural systems framework and an agent-based landscape model to examine how al…
View article: Spatiotemporal dynamics of simulated wildfire, forest management, and forest succession in central Oregon, USA
Spatiotemporal dynamics of simulated wildfire, forest management, and forest succession in central Oregon, USA Open
We use the simulation model Envision to analyze long-term wildfire dynamics and the effects of different fuel management scenarios in central Oregon, USA. We simulated a 50-year future where fuel management activities were increased by dou…
View article: Spending patterns of outdoor recreation visitors to national forests
Spending patterns of outdoor recreation visitors to national forests Open
The economic linkages between national forests and surrounding areas are one of the important ways public lands contribute to the well-being of private individuals and communities.One way national forests contribute to the economies of sur…
View article: Integrating social science into empirical models of coupled human and natural systems
Integrating social science into empirical models of coupled human and natural systems Open
Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) research highlights reciprocal interactions (or feedbacks) between biophysical and socioeconomic variables to explain system dynamics and resilience. Empirical models often are used to test hypothe…
View article: Recreation economic values for estimating outdoor recreation economic benefits from the National Forest System
Recreation economic values for estimating outdoor recreation economic benefits from the National Forest System Open
Natural resource professionals are often tasked with weighing the benefits and costs of changes in ecosystem services associated with land management alternatives and decisions.In many cases, federal regulations even require land managers …