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Aquatic resources and recreation behavior

Leisure Sciences, 1977
While substantial effort has been undertaken to understand the consequences of industrial and agricultural uses for the environment, concern has also been expressed about its other uses, including recreation. Little is known about the relationship between recreational behavior and an environmental resource base.
Neil H. Cheek, Donald R. Field
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Zoos—resource or recreation?

Journal of Biological Education, 1986
(1986). Zoos—resource or recreation? Journal of Biological Education: Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 231-234.
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Do Recreational Resources Contribute to Physical Activity?

Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2008
Background:Previous research suggests that access to recreational resources might influence physical activity. Little research, however, has looked at both access to and the characteristics of recreational resources and physical activity.Methods:Access to recreational resources was assessed by counting the number of recreational resources in the ...
Elizabeth A, Baker, Mario, Schootman, Cheryl, Kelly, Ellen, Barnidge   +3 more
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Wildlife As A Recreational Resource

Tourism Recreation Research, 1977
Hunting provides a thrill that cannot be matched perhaps by any other sport that mankind has so far evolved. To stalk and outwit a wild animal whose senses of sight, smell and hearing are far superior to those of human beings and to bring it down with a well placed shot with spear, bow and arrow or a fire-arm, requires considerable physical skill and ...
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Paper trails: The Outdoor Recreation Resource Review Commission and the rationalization of recreational resources

Geoforum, 2010
Abstract This article examines the history of the Outdoor Recreation Resource Review Commission (ORRRC) in the United States between 1955 and 1963 and efforts to make recreational resources legible for federal governance. By drawing on insights from Critical Resource Geography, I highlight the ways that the ORRRC systematically accounted for and ...
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Recreation Activity Packages at Water-Based Resources

Leisure Sciences, 1978
Identifying the sets or packages of activities in which recreational users participate during a visit to wildland water‐based resources will help managers and planners understand user needs, impacts and conflicts. Resident visitors and nonresident tourists define the same recreation site in different ways, in terms of the activity packages in which ...
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Governor’s conference on recreational resources

1985
The Governor's Conference on Recreational Resources jointly sponsored by theNew Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the New JerseyRecreation and Park Association was held on December 7 and 8, 1984 inParsippany, New Jersey. The 288 delegates attending this two-day workshoprepresented a cross section of recreation professionals, business ...
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Recreational benefits of water resource development

Water Resources Research, 1966
Although the major concern of the federal government is with the character of the facilities provided, the calculation of the efficiency benefits of recreational investment is an appropriate part of the process of design of water resource systems. Recreation is a purpose of water resource development that should be considered in project evaluation.
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Water Resource Projects and Outdoor Recreation

Journal of the Urban Planning and Development Division, 1967
It is estimated that major water resource projects constructed in this nation provide approximately 10,000,000 acres of water surface and that this resource, together with related lands, accommodated some 500,000,000 visitors in 1965. Current projections indicate that it will be necessary to construct, by 1980, about double the reservoir storage ...
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