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Perceptions of Climate Change: A Segmentation Analysis of Tourist Groups to Maine, USA

Problem Addressed: How climate changes affect tourism

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Understand types of tourists and tourism expenditures in Maine, explore perceptions how weather effects tourist groups, examine climate change beliefs and concerns across tourist groups

Key Findings: Non-nature-based tourists spend more per person per night; impact of individual weather variables relatively small but is influential

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Pesticide Safety – Guidelines for Personnel Protection

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Outcome-Based Forestry: A Case Study of the First Private Landowner’s Implementation of an Alternative to Maine’s Forest Practices Act

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Determine how participating landowners were incorporating OBF policy into their forest management planning and operations; learn how they were ensuring that the required outcomes under the agreement were being achieved; determine the effects of IW's enrollment in OBF, as perceived by their forest managers, upon IW as a corporation, upon society, and upon the foresters implementing the policy; determine if harvest plans created under the contraints of OBF produce lower rates of fragmentation compared to FPA harvest plans for the same landscape

Key Findings: OBF harvests more closely followed stand boundaries, fractured fewer stands, and maintained higher mean stand area, the spatial arrangement of harvesting is a critical factor in lowering fragmentation

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Evaluating the Influence of Stem Form and Vigor on Product Potential, Growth, and Survival for Northern Commercial Hardwood Species

Problem Addressed: Understanding how defects influence product recover and value; growth and mortality.

Goal(s)/Objective(s): A revised tree classification system

Key Findings: Stem form and vigor are highly variable across hardwood species; both attributes have important implications on hardwood growth & yield.

Recommendation: 4 classifications of stem form, 2 classifications of risk

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Public Access to Private Land: Research Summary

Problem Addressed: Private land usage

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Determine issues and realize solutions

Key Findings: People are concerned about issues relating to public recreation access to private land

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LiDAR and Forestry: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future

Problem Addressed: LiDAR and structure for motion provide invaluable data on forests

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Describe potential uses and challenges of these 3D technologies

Key Findings: 3D will change how we inventory and make forest management decisions

Recommendation: Continued research and evaluation of 3D products is needed for full utilization

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The Effects of Changing Weather on Nature-Based Tourism: Visitation and Economic Impacts on Mount Desert Island, Maine

Problem Addressed: Weather's effect on tourism

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Examine the potential impact of past weather conditions on visitation and tourism-related spending on Mount Desert Island, Maine, in order to understand the potential need for future climate adaptation.

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Visitor Experience & Resource Protection (VERP): Understanding Management Effectiveness Based on the Perceptions of Academic Experts, Planners & Park Managers

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Provide an assessment of VERP effectiveness through gaining a deeper understanding of the perceptions of academic experts, park planners, and U.S. park managers.

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The Effects of Changing Climate and Weather on Mount Desert Island’s Nature-Based Tourism Industry

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Examine the potential impact of weather conditions on visitors' travels and tourism-related spending on Mount Desert Island, Maine, in order to understand the potential need for future climate change adaptation

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