National Outdoor Recreation Assessments - the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission

Parks & Recreation, Jan, 1999 by Carter J. Betz

Loomis, John; Kenneth Bonetti and Chris Echohawk. 1999. "Demand for and supply of wilderness." (In H. Ken Cordell, ed.) Outdoor Recreation in American Life: A National Assessment of Demand and Supply Trends. Champaign, IL: Sagamore Press.

Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission. 1962. Outdoor Recreation for America. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents.

President's Commission on Americans Outdoors. 1986. Report and Recommendations to the President of the United States. Washington: U. S. Government Printing Office.

Siehl, George H. 1990. "Trends in natural resource policy." (In Joseph T. O'Leary, ed.) Proceedings of the National Outdoor Recreation Trends Symposium in Purdue University. March 29-31, 1990. Indianapolis, IN. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources.

Siehl, George H. and Joseph T. O'Leary. 1995. "Points on the policy trend line." (in J.L. Thompson, D.W. Lime, B. Gartner, and W.M. Sames, comps.) Proceedings of the Fourth International Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Trends Symposium and the 1995 National Recreation Resource Planning Conference. May 14-17, 1995. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, College of Natural Resources and Minnesota Extension Service.

Tarrant, Michael A.; Alan D. Bright; Erin Smith and H. Ken Cordell. 1999. "Motivations, attitudes, preferences, and satisfactions among outdoor recreationists." (in H. Ken Cordell, ed.) Outdoor Recreation in American Life: A National Assessment of Demand and Supply Trends. Champaign, IL: Sagamore Press.

Teasley, R. Jeff; John C. Bergstrom; H. Ken Cordell; Stanley J. Zarnoch and Paul Gentle. 1999. "Private lands and outdoor recreation in the United States." (In H. Ken Cordell, ed.) Outdoor Recreation in American Life: A National Assessment of Demand and Supply Trends. Champaign, IL: Sagamore Press.

Zinser, Charles I. 1995. Outdoor Recreation: United States National Parks, Forests, and Public Lands. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Carter J. Betz is an outdoor recreation planner at the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station.

Research Update is edited by Dr. Irma O'Dell of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

The 1998 national recreation assessment book (Cordell, 1999), which will be published by Sagamore Press later this year, should be widely available.