Exploring forest and recreation management preferences of forest recreationists in Alberta

Abstract

Understanding social values of stakeholder groups is an essenLa comprehension des valem sociales des groupes d'intervenants tial part of ecosystem management. Values of one stakeholder group, constitue un element essentiel de l'amenagement de I'ecosysteme. campers at managed sites in the Rocky-Clearwater Forest of Les valeurs d'un groupe d'intervenants, les campeurs des sites ameAlberta, were examined using campground management preference nages de la for6t Rocky Cleanvater en Alberta, ont ete etudiees and forest attitude scales. On-site and mail surveys were used to au moyen des echelles de preference reliee a l'amenagement du collect data from campers during 1994. Four specialization clussite et a l'attitude face a la for& Des sondages sur place et par la ters were delineated that identified differences in management prefposte ont ete utilises pour recueillir des donnees sur les campeurs erences. Campers most familiar with the area and those with the au cours de 1994. Quatre regroupements specialises ont ete most camping experience were the least supportive of traditiondelimites et soulignaient les differences au niveau des prkferences a1 timber management and campground development. Overall, d'amenagement. Les campeurs les plus familiers avec le site ainsi campers did not support increased facility development at campque ceux qui avaient le plus d'experience de camping etaient les grounds. This study suggests that campers may be supportive of personnes les moins portees a appuyer l'amenagement forestier an ecosystem approach to forest management that incorporates et le dkeloppernent des sites de camping traditionnels. De f a~o n nontimber values.generale, les campeurs n'appuyaient pas le developpement accru des facilites sur les terrains de camping. Cette etude laisse entenKey words: camping, ecosystem management, forest recredre que les campeurs peuvent appuyer une approche kcosystemique ation, management preferences, recreation specialization, social d'amenagement forestier qui comprend des valeurs non reliees values a la matiere ligneuse.

Using Canonical Correlation Analysis to Identify Environmental Attitude Groups: Considerations for National Forest Planning in the Southwestern U.S.

“…Initially, consideration was given to conducting a statelevel analysis on the expectation of underlying differences between the Regional and state samples (Bengston 1994;Johnson et al 2004;McFarlane and Boxall 1996). However, as can be seen in Table 3, mean values for all three dimensions of Public Land Values for the two main state samples, Arizona and New Mexico, are not statistically different from the Regional sample.…”

“…Such values are influenced by the social context in which they are formed and can differ across different population groups (Clement and Cheng 2011;Fischer 2010), but once formed are considered stable over time (Manning et al 1999;Stern et al 1995). In the context of resource planning, (forest) values are assumed to influence environmental attitudes (Dietz et al 2005;McFarlane and Boxall 1996) and help predict public reaction to changes in forest policy (Bengston 1994;Tarrant et al 2003). Therefore, to be useful to policymakers, the analysis must be connected to the set of demographic characteristics that influence the level of agreement for each dimension in held values (Bengston 1994;Stern 2000).…”