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A Qualitative Study of Maine Volunteer Lake Monitors’ Environmental Values and Motivations

Problem Addressed: Volunteer motivation
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Explore the meaning of helping the environment as a motivator for Maine Volunteer Lake Monitors (VM)
Key Findings: Four broad, inter-related motivations are pragmatic, impassioned, recreational, and heritage
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Sense of Place Along a Scenic Byway in Maine

Problem Addressed: Sense of place and tourist effects
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Identify sense of place in the midst of tourism-related growth and development
Key Findings: Data supports the idea that tourism-related growth and development is causing a lot of concern among people who live in or visit the Rangeley Lakes area.
Views: 841
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The Ozark National Scenic Riverways: An Examination of Trust Between Natural Resource Agencies and Local Communities

Problem Addressed: Agency-community relationships
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Capture a range of perspectives on the agency-community relationship between residents living in nearby communities and NPS personnel.
Key Findings: Themes associated with participants' perceptions of trust, expectations and evaluations of management and the factors that inhibit and promote trust.
Views: 776
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Effects of the Recreational Fee Demonstration Program on Backcountry Users in Grand Canyon and Everglades National Park

Problem Addressed: Backcountry users at national parks and increased recreation fees
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Determine opinions and attitudes, potential displacement, and visitation responses to increased recreation user fees
Key Findings: For those that were planning on visiting the backcountry of the National Park, the proposed increase in recreation user fees, ratings of fees as a barrier, and frequency of participation influenced the reduction in number of visits.
Views: 801
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The Hiawatha National Forest: An Examination of Trust Between Natural Resource Agencies and Local Communities

Problem Addressed: Community relationships
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Capture a range of perspectives on the agency-community relationship between USFS personnel working at HNF and residents living nearby.
Key Findings: Many study participants explained how important it is that the community trusts the agency because of their dependence upon the HNF.
Views: 819
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Community/Agency Trust and Public Involvement in Resource Planning

Problem Addressed: The extent to which local community members trust a management agency and their willingness to engage in resource-related public discourse and involvement.
Key Findings: The central role of building trust among local constituents within many planning frameworks needs to be reconsidered with consideration given to both the needs of individuals who trust an agency and the desires of distrusting individuals who are more likely to become involved in public involvement efforts.
Views: 915
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Reflections from USDA Forest Service Employees on Institutional Constraints to Engaging and Serving Their Local Communities

Problem Addressed: Community relationship building with forest management
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Look at the institutional constraints to engaging and serving local communities from the perspectives of 20 USDA Forest Personnel from three units.
Recommendation: The Forest Service provides opportunities for successful relationship building efforts and assesses Innovative techniques in a Community Partnerships Demonstration Project.
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Community/Agency Trust: A Measurement Instrument

Problem Addressed: Natural resource management agencies building relationships with their constituents
Goal(s)/Objective(s): Present the development and validation of a psychometric instrument intended to measure the trust held by local community members living adjacent to managed natural resource areas.
Views: 951
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