A5038517457- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Forest Management and Policy
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Water Quality and Resources Studies
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Team Dynamics and Performance
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Landslides and related hazards
Fort Collins Science Center
2018-2024
United States Geological Survey
2012-2024
Southwest Biological Science Center
2022-2023
Rocky Mountain Research Station
2023
Colorado State University
2022
Grand Teton National Park
2021
Delta Air Lines (United States)
2021
Schoodic Institute
2021
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2017
Ecological Society of America
2017
Improved consideration of the cultural benefits ecosystem services (ES) requires attention to knowledge pluralism in addition value pluralism. Theorists have increasingly argued that meaningful inclusion ES plural values, beyond individual, instrumental values associated with ecosystems. However, there has been little engagement around role as a foundational enabling factor for values. This paper contributes conceptual toolkit implementation theory and application by (re)conceptualizing...
Abstract The combination of co‐occurring climate change and increasing land‐use is likely to affect future environmental socioeconomic conditions in drylands; these hyper‐arid sub‐humid landscapes are limited by water resources prone land degradation. We characterized the potential for geographic overlap among practices between on Colorado Plateau—a dryland region experiencing rapid changes facing aridification. spatial patterns temporal trends aridification, land‐use, recreation at county...
The purpose of this article was to report recreationists' coping response stress experienced in outdoor recreation settings. Stress defined as daily hassles. most frequent sources hassles were litter, noise from other people, damage the resource, and too many people at campsites. Recreationists used a scheme that combined problem emotion-focused mechanisms. Intensity moderately predicted frequency weakly coping. use had positive relationship with negative impacts experience resulting hassle...
Abstract Context Landscape science relies on foundational concepts of landscape ecology and seeks to understand the physical, biological, human components ecosystems support land management decision-making. Incorporating into decisions, however, remains challenging. Many lands in western United States are federally owned managed for multiple uses, including recreation, conservation, energy development. Objective We argue stronger integration these public lands. Methods open by outlining...
Recreation specialization is a framework that can be used to explain the variation among outdoor recreationists' preferences, attitudes, and behaviors. has been operationalized using several approaches, including summative indices, cluster analysis, self-classification categorical measures. Although these approaches measure multiple dimensions of framework, they may not reflect relative contribution individuals' degree engagement. We illustrate an approach uses second-order confirmatory...
How information is communicated influences the public's environmental perceptions and behaviors. Information channels sources both play an important role in dissemination of information. Trust a source often used as proxy for whether particular piece credible. To determine preferences trust various on nature-related topics, mail-out survey was sent to randomly selected U.S. addresses (n = 1,030). Diverse groups people may have differing communication preferences. Therefore, we explored...
It has been argued that regional collaboration can facilitate adaptation to climate change impacts through integrated planning and management. In an attempt understand the underlying institutional factors either support or contest this assumption, paper explores influencing at scale, where multiple public land natural resource management jurisdictions are involved. Insights from two mid-western US case studies reveal several challenges persist prevent fully integrative multi-jurisdictional a...
Outdoor recreation facilitates important connections to nature and wildlife, but it is perceived differently across population segments. As such, we expected that socio-demographic characteristics of individuals would influence intention participate in outdoor recreation. We solicited 5,000 U.S. residents (n = 1,030, 23% response rate) describe their perceptions hunting birdwatching. The current childhood community size (i.e., urban-rural) was examined as a potentially predictor...
Many cultural benefits of ecosystem services (ES) are difficult to capture in standard ES assessments. Scholars and practitioners often respond this gap by seeking develop new scientific methods integrate the plural values associated with diverse categories. This increasing emphasis on value pluralism represents an essential step toward recognitional justice within theory practice. However, current approaches continue rest assumption that ES-knowledge is only made available decision-makers...
This research investigated nonhunting-hikers' response to social interactions with hunters in outdoor recreation settings. Hikers were presented a hypothetical scenario describing interaction hunters. Social value conflict and psychological stress/coping theories used hypothesize test structural equation model. Fifty-two percent of the sample (n = 388) indicated that would be stressful. appraised situation as controllable. The coping combined emotion problem-focused coping. plan included...
High-intensity land-use and aridification due to climate change could affect a broad range of ecosystem services landscape attributes in dryland systems. We describe temporal spatial trends projections for major categories as well the Colorado Plateau, region western United States. also identified areas with high potential overlap between intense rates future explored impacts services. Our findings suggest that large different types are likely occur have impact services, such water...
Abstract Canadian and American waterfowl hunters were surveyed to identify their hunting trip preferences. Respondents individuals that now participating or had participated in hunting, most hunted the majority of last five years. We identified four latent classes varied preferences for harvest, access effort, length travel, quantity seen, potential interference/competition. found a diminishing return associated with number harvested, ‘devoted’ ‘local’ did not perceive appreciable benefit...
The cultural benefits of ecosystem services (ES) make foundational contributions to human well-being, and yet they are consistently underrepresented in research products intended inform decision-making. In particular, the relational or holistic values linked continuous, place-based, reciprocal human-nature relationships – such as identity, maintenance knowledge systems, opportunity live right relationship with ecosystems inadequately conveyed through existing instrumental approaches ES...
This investigation explored the effects of storytelling on development children's sense place in a formerly inhabited forest. Six groups elementary children visited ten-acre wooded site twice. During their first visit, students and wrote about experiences. On second trip, two heard stories history, others site's geology ecology, (controls) were not told stories. Data—field notes, solicited writings, interview transcripts—were coded to yield meanings evidence attachment development....