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Current Projects 

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Funding Agency

  • US National Park Service

Objective(s)

  • To understand:

    • Stakeholder groups (hunters (general and Mtn Lion), ranchers, farmers – grassroots stakeholders 

    • Agency perspectives (e.g. NPS, NDOW) 

    • How people who live around Great Basin view, perceive, value, and understand issues related to mountain lions 

    • Possible differences in urban v rural populations 

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Funding Agency

  • US Forest Service

Objective(s)

  • How does the public perceive and value mature and old growth forests and their structural characteristics and how does that influence their recreation choices and

  • What are public attitudes towards management of mature and old growth forests and trade-offs between management actions and disturbance in those forests.   

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Funding Agency

  • US National Park Service

  • In collaboration with the University of Georgia

Objective(s)

  • Number of visitors on daily, weekly, monthly, and annual basis 

  • Most frequented access spots to FOMO 

  • Types of recreational use 

  • How visitation may be different based on entry points 

  • Detailed long term monitoring plan for continued use of cameras and/or counters 

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Funding Agency

  • US National Park Service

  • In collaboration with Kansas State University and the University of Idaho

Objective(s)

To understand:

  • visitor demographics 

  • trip characteristics (e.g., recreational behaviors, preferences, and motivations) 

  • visitor use amounts and behaviors 

  • visitor evaluations of services, facilities, and programs  

Project Storymap

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Funding Agency

  • US National Park Service

  • In collaboration with Kansas State University and the University of Idaho

Objective(s)

To provide managers with valuable information about visitors parking, fee payment, and way-finding behavior, and thus, help inform ongoing and future management decisions and planning.

 

Project Storymap 

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Climbing Management Planning

Funding Agency

  • US National Park Service

  • In collaboration with Kansas State University and the University of Idaho

Objective(s)

To understand experiential and ecological impacts of recreational rock climbing at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, Carderock Recreational Area and Great Falls Park.

 

Project Storymap

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Funding Agency

  • US National Park Servic

  • Lewis and Clack Trust

Objective(s)

To understand the economic impact and overall use of a subset of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail.   

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Funding Agency

  • US National Park Service

  • In collaboration with the University of Georgia

Objective(s)

  • Better understand visitors’ demographic characteristics and use of KEMO 

  • Provide a profile of visitors and their expenditures associated with the park 

  • Assess visitors’ satisfaction with their experience and identify areas of improvement to enhance visitor experiences. 


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Funding Agency

  • Tennessee Division of Forestry

Objective(s)

  • Conduct a condition and problem-area transect study to assess visitor-generated OHV related ecological impacts to terrestrial surface trails. 

  • Conduct a visitor survey to understand perceptions, opinions, and general user characteristics of OHV users in select locations.   

Completed Projects 

Funding Agency

US National Park Service

Objective(s)

Development of a visitor use management monitoring protocol.

 

Final Technical Report

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Funding Agency

The Nature Conservancy

Full Project StoryMap

Objective(s)

Preliminary evaluation of visitor use and the development of visitor use monitoring protocols.

 

Final Technical Report

Green River - Mammoth Cave National Park

Funding Agency

US National Park Service

Objective(s)

Understand terrestrial and river based use. 

Final Technical Report

Harpers Ferry, WV

US National Park Service

Objective(s)

To provide information to understand rock climbing and related resources and inform future management of climbing resources at the park. 

Final Technical Report

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Cannon at Monocacy National Battlefield

US National Park Service

Objective(s)

1) collecting baseline data on visitor use, visitor attitudes, and visitor perceptions of impacts and 2) assessing management alternatives for visitor use.

Final Technical Report

Project Storymap

Researchers next to entrance sign at Prince William Forest Park

US National Park Service

Objective(s)

1) collecting baseline data on visitor use patterns, visitor attitudes, and visitor perceptions of impacts and2) assessing management alternatives for visitor use.

Final Technical Report

Project Storymap

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Objective(s)

Evaluate visitor characteristics across and within season to inform management decisions.

 

Read report here.

Dungeness Ruins - Cumberland Island

Objective(s)

Evaluate spatial - temporal travel patterns of visitors, visitor thresholds, and on-site current conditions.

 

Read report here.

North Rim of the Grand Canyon

Objective(s)

Inform visitor use management decisions within the Cross Canyon Corridor.

 

Read report here.

Little Missouri River - Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Objective(s)

Evaluate conditions to inform visitor use management planning decisions.

 

Read report here.

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Objective(s)

Research to inform visitor use management decisions.

Read report here.

Boater congestion on Buffalo National River

Objective(s)

Evaluate current conditions and inform visitor use management planning decisions.

 

Read report here.

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Objective(s)

Research to inform roads and trails plan within OZAR.

 

Read report here.

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Shenandoah National Park

Objective(s)

Evaluating visitor use of technological resources.

 

Read report here.

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Objective(s)

Understanding visitor spatial and  temporal travel patterns.

 

Read report here.

Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park

Objective(s)

Understanding and evaluate visitor use distributions, impacts, crowding and conflict.

Read report here.

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Funding Agency

  • US National Park Service

  • In collaboration with the University of Georgia

Objective(s)

  • How visitors choose to spend their 1-hour at the Fort before reboarding the ferry 

  • What activities/experiences visitors are able to engage with or not, 

  • How visitors move throughout the fort (e.g., what routes they take during their visit or the order in which they visit the sites)

  • If visitors congregate and/or concentrate in certain areas 

  • How visitor use patterns change when there are more visitors (closer to the ferry’s capacity

Final Technical Report

Project Storymap

Students at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

Objective(s)

Full Project StoryMap

Technical Report

Evaluate visitors temporal and spatial distribution and service level satisfaction.

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