Communication Perspectives About Bison Safety in Yellowstone National Park: A Comparison of International and North American Visitors

Miller, Zachary D.; Freimund, Wayne; Blackford, Tami

doi:10.18666/jpra-2018-v36-i1-8503

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“…In the GYE, NPS wildlife distance regulations are provided with both a numerical distance and a visual proxy. Park visitors are told to maintain 25 yards, the equivalent of approximately two bus lengths, away from ungulates such as bison and elk (National Park Service, 2021d, 2022. When given this messaging during the distance exercise, however, study participants maintained an average of ~66 yards away from the bison cutout in GRTE and ~61 yards from the elk cutout in YELL, providing an additional ~40 to 45-yard buffer from the NPS regulation.…”

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“…Much of the previous human-bison interaction research has focused on YELL (Freeman et al, 2020; Miller & Freimund, 2018; Miller et al, 2018), while GRTE has been understudied. Furthermore, incidents between elk and people in Yellowstone are becoming increasingly concerning to managers, but little previous research has explored conflict in this context.…”

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“…In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), managers disperse communications that inform visitors to stay 25 yards, the equivalent of approximately two bus lengths, away from ungulates such as bison and elk (National Park Service, 2020a). These regulations are the same in both Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, per each unit's Superintendent's Compendium (National Park Service, 2021d, 2022). Yet wildlife-caused injuries occur every year as people approach wildlife at inappropriately close distances (Cherry et al, 2018;Conover, 2019;National Park Service, 2020b;Penteriani et al, 2016).…”

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The Impact of Message Framing on Wildlife Approach During Ungulate Viewing Experiences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Journal of Interpretation Research

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Every year, millions of people visit parks and protected areas to view wildlife. Conflict between people and ungulates is prominent, and many incidents occur when people approach ungulates at proximities less than the National Park Service regulation of 25 yards. The purpose of this study was to test how wildlife viewing communication messages impact park visitors’ approach behavior. A survey and walking exercise were conducted with life-sized ungulate cutouts on a 100-yard transect in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks to test the influence of three message frames (i.e., current NPS messaging, resource protection messaging, and a visitor experience message) on visitors’ approach behaviors. Park visitors overestimated proximity when given current park messaging. Additionally, the resource protection- and the visitor experience-framed messages led to more conservative wildlife approach compared to current park messaging. These results have practical applications for influencing visitors’ behaviors and reducing human-wildlife conflict through education and interpretation.

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The Impact of Message Framing on Wildlife Approach During Ungulate Viewing Experiences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

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Lawhon³

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“…The results from this research also provide a variety of new avenues for laboratory and field-based research. For instance, recent research shows that international visitors to US national parks have different perceptions about natural resource conditions [72]. Investigating if there are similar differences in affect related to other types of visitor impacts may provide interesting results.…”

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The Role of Tourism Impacts on Cultural Ecosystem Services

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Parks and protected areas are recognized for the important ecosystem services, or benefits, they provide society. One emerging but understudied component is the cultural ecosystem services that parks and protected areas provide. These cultural ecosystem services include a variety of benefits, such as cultural heritage, spiritual value, recreation opportunities, and human health and well-being. However, many of these services can only be provided if people visit these parks and protected areas through tourism opportunities. However, with this tourism use comes a variety of inevitable resource impacts. This current research connects potential impacts from tourism in parks and protected areas to the health and well-being aspect of cultural ecosystem services. We used an MTurk sample to record affective responses across a range of resource conditions. Results demonstrate that as tourism-related ecological impacts increased, positive affect decreased. Decreases in positive affect were more severe for park and protected area scenes featuring informal and/or undesignated social trails when compared to scenes with increasing levels of trampling/vegetation loss. Collectively, the results show that managing tourism in parks and protected areas in a manner that reduces impact is essential to providing beneficial cultural ecosystem services related to human health and well-being.

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Mutualism Wildlife Value Orientations Predict Support for Messages About Distance-Related Wildlife Conflict

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Communication Perspectives About Bison Safety in Yellowstone National Park: A Comparison of International and North American Visitors

Cited by 12 publications

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The Impact of Message Framing on Wildlife Approach During Ungulate Viewing Experiences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

The Impact of Message Framing on Wildlife Approach During Ungulate Viewing Experiences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

The Role of Tourism Impacts on Cultural Ecosystem Services

Mutualism Wildlife Value Orientations Predict Support for Messages About Distance-Related Wildlife Conflict

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