The purpose of this section is to carry shorter articles and short notes on pilot studies, innovative or exploratory research It is hoped that this section will (1) introduce new research techniques and result in greater experimentation, testing, and implementation,serve as a communication vehicle for reader comments on various articles, book reviews, etc ; and (3) wherever possible, summarize the results of other meetings which have dealt with tourism and recreation Tourist-recreation destination regions are subjected to weekend and seasonal waves of mass leisure-pleasure seekers in increasingly greater numbers. Urban destination complexes are often equipped to handle large numbers of transient visitors. How do rural destination regions accommodate incidents of larceny, vandalism, arson, counterfeiting, and credit card and mail fraud? Answers to this question and other general observations about rural crime and law enforcement patterns and problems were sought by police and sheriff departments, county commissioners, criminal justice planning units, state and federal bureaus of investigation, Fraud and Internal Crime units of the U.S. District Ranger, Cone Park Sub-District, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, addressed the subject of general protection for the Blue Ridge Parkway, a travel corridor used by an estimated 17 million people in 1975. Fire protection, campground maintenance and fee collection, visitor safety and information, cattle and crop control, concession agreements, and vehicle and pedestrian traffic are major concerns of the crime detection and law enforcement units of the Parkway rangers.Mr. Byers indicated that the major problems of Parkway rangers are (1) seasonality of visitation rates, (2) travel budget restrictions for personnel, (3) breaking-and-entering crimes committed in parking lots and concession buildings, (4) breaking and entering tents, (5) an identification crisis caused by rangers wearing the same uniforms as worn by park historians and naturalists, (6) shortage of modern monitoring radio and information systems, (7) shortage of personnel to operate radio equipment, and (8) the ever-changing decisions by administrative policymakers on the issue of rangers carrying or not carrying firearms.Douglas Townsend, Chief of Police, Blowing Rock, North Carolina, presented recent crime characteristics in his popular summer resort town/city that increases in population from 800 in January to more than 8,000 in June. The three-season protection of 750 vacation homes present the largest problem for his five-officer force. Installation of a modern surveillance system has, however, recently reduced breaking-and-entering cases from 100 in 1971 to only 2 in 1975. Higher conviction rates, use of unmarked cars, personal property identifi-
