A5089680862- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest ecology and management
- Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Categorization, perception, and language
Utah State University
2021-2024
Baylor University
2024
This article examines the challenge of preserving ecological conditions and maintaining accessibility in parks protected areas (PPA). Drawing from empirical research that analyzes social concept recreation specialization, selective channeling interests abilities into a specific recreational activity. study aims to better understand behavior across sample population recreationists urban-proximate park settings at Nature Reserve Orange County, CA. Multivariate classification methods an...
Recreational trails are a vital element of protected natural areas (PNAs) infrastructure, which enables visitors to travel through and engage in various activities such as hiking, biking, horse riding. Degradation adversely affects the environment well safety comfort visitors. As role many PNAs is protect provide recreational opportunities, need obtain accurate information about condition direction their transformation evident. Spatial characteristics can be very heterogenic even within...
Monitoring visitor use in parks and protected areas (PPAs) provides essential information for managers of PPAs to evaluate aspects the experience balance ecological disturbance that creates. Traditional methods quantifying visitation spatial are resource intensive thus conducted infrequently or at cost-effective intervals which may fail capture dynamic nature modern trends. This paper an addition a growing literature using mobile-device data quantify density urban-proximate Orange County,...
Monitoring and managing the condition of recreational trails is a time- resource- intensive process often requiring significant field data. We developed method for predicting trail over 183 km in three urban-proximate nature reserves Orange County, California using data from 118 random forest (RF) models. Further, we use fitness tracking application Strava to measure recreation intensity, activity type, spatial dimensions visitor use. Our results indicate 30 two that are at risk degradation....
The systematic gathering of data on visitors to parks and protected areas (PPAs) is an important aspect adaptive management, but also presents ongoing challenge conduct. Visitor questionnaires, often administered at entrance facilities, trailheads parking areas, are the most common approach, require significant staff time for field work analysis may not be inclusive all visitors. In this paper, we present a novel, mobile device-based assessment strategy that can determine basic visitor...
Parks and Protected Areas (PPAs) across the Intermountain West region of United States have observed an increasing trend in visitation past decade. Management visitors’ vehicles as much visitors themselves has created a challenge for managers. Experiencing PPAs by personal vehicle is popular recreation experience. However, accommodate historic levels visitation, infrastructure to these strained. In response periods especially high use summer months, Rocky Mountain National Park (ROMO)...
Understanding the spatial patterns of visitor behaviors is important for monitoring impacts and managing outdoor recreation in urban forest. This study aimed to measure monitor an forest by using user-generated GPS tracks uploaded interactive resource sharing platform 2bulu. We collected 3,463 valid that 2bulu between 2007 2019 investigate capability hiking visitation Beijing, China. Our analysis visualization ArcGIS show can be used supplement use program. Specifically, kernel density...