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Perceived Community Benefits from Recreation Resources: From Scale Development to Validation

Problem Addressed: Individuals' perceptions of community benefits generated from managed recreation resources.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Fill the gap in the recreation and natural resource management literature.
Key Findings: The perceived community benefits scale can be employed in future research to develop more valid theoretical propositions relating individuals' values and the possible outcomes they would lie to see recreation resources managed for.
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An Agent-Based Model of Private Woodland Owner Management Behavior Using Social Interactions, Information Flow, and Peer-To-Peer Networks

Problem Addressed: Difficulty estimating impacts of management and timber supply from privately owned woodlots.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Understand how social interactions, information flow, and peer-to-peer networks influence timber harvesting behavior using an agent-based model.
Key Findings: As trust in foresters and peer leaders increases, the percentage of the forest that is harvested sustainably increases.
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Local Institutions and Lake Management

Problem Addressed: Emergence and behavior of local institutions and the potential for these institutions to supplement conventional resource management approaches.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Advance understanding of the capacity of local institutions to contribute to lake management, specifically those in Maine, USA.
Key Findings: Results offer guidance on how to better integrate the informal approaches of local institutions with more formal, regional government-based management approaches and reveal the need for further research of what issues these stakeholder-engaged institutions are best suited to address.
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Linking Knowledge with Action: Applied Social Science Considerations to Improve Woody Bioenergy Research and Development Effectiveness

Problem Addressed: Woody bioenergy research and development
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Summarize the findings of a social considerations study conducted with stakeholders who were invited to participate in the development of a multi-state sustainable bioenergy research proposal.
Key Findings: Results provide important and useful data for understanding key stakeholders' views on the woody bioproducts industry, interest in collaborating, and diverse perspectives and needs.
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Local Institutions and Natural Resource Management

Problem Addressed: Coupled natural-human systems
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Develop an integrated empirical modeling framework of lake association presence (formation) and lake management success
Key Findings: Little support for the integrated model incorporating selection.
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Changes in Social Capital and Networks: A Study of Community-Based Environmental Management Through a School-Centered Research Program

Goal(s)/Objective(s): Document the changes in social capital and networks that result from community based K-12 educational collaborations.
Key Findings: There were statistically significant increases in social capital and resilience in social networks after participation in the school-centered CBEMR program leading to an increased community involvement in environmental health management.
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Building Trust in Natural Resource Management Within Local Communities: A Case Study of the Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Problem Addressed: Communities neighboring federally protected natural areas and their administering agency's programs and policies.
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Explores perceptions of trust, expectations for management, as well as constraints to building trust.
Key Findings: Trust is perceived as important to effective management. Several constraints to building trust were identified.
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1984 Spruce Budworm Research in Maine: A Review of Research Funded by the Maine Forest Service’s Spruce Budworm Research Program

Problem Addressed: Spruce Budworm
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Briefly summarize recently completed and ongoing research projects and to make that information available to forest managers, other potential users and the general public
Key Findings: Technology transfer is a key concern for the review committee.
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Dynamics of Coarse Woody Debris Following Gap Harvesting in the Acadian Forest of Central Maine, U.S.A.

Problem Addressed: Dynamics of coarse woody debris (CWD) under an expanding-gap harvesting system in the Acadian forest of Maine
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Comparing volume, biomass, diameter-class, and decay-class distributions of CWD in permanent plots before and 3 years after harvest
Key Findings: The trend is likely more complex than what was determined due to the superimposition of small-scale natural disturbances and repeated silvicultural entries.
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