Current Policy and Legal Issues Affecting Recreational Use of Public Lands in the American West

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Stevens ◽  
Richard Frank
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Recreational Use

scholarly journals Next-generation visitation models using social media to estimate recreation on public lands

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Spencer A. Wood ◽  
Samantha G. Winder ◽  
Emilia H. Lia ◽  
Eric M. White ◽  
Christian S. L. Crowley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Visitor Management ◽  
Relative Value ◽  
Promising Source ◽  
Recreational Use ◽  
Media Data

Abstract Outdoor and nature-based recreation provides countless social benefits, yet public land managers often lack information on the spatial and temporal extent of recreation activities. Social media is a promising source of data to fill information gaps because the amount of recreational use is positively correlated with social media activity. However, despite the implication that these correlations could be employed to accurately estimate visitation, there are no known transferable models parameterized for use with multiple social media data sources. This study tackles these issues by examining the relative value of multiple sources of social media in models that estimate visitation at unmonitored sites and times across multiple destinations. Using a novel dataset of over 30,000 social media posts and 286,000 observed visits from two regions in the United States, we compare multiple competing statistical models for estimating visitation. We find social media data substantially improve visitor estimates at unmonitored sites, even when a model is parameterized with data from another region. Visitation estimates are further improved when models are parameterized with on-site counts. These findings indicate that while social media do not fully substitute for on-site data, they are a powerful component of recreation research and visitor management.

scholarly journals FOREST RECREATION MOVES AHEAD IN ONTARIO

1962 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
A. B. Wheatley
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Renewable Resources ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Timber Production ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
The Public ◽  
Land Use Plan ◽  
Outdoor Experiences ◽  
Recreational Use

1. The public right to use and enjoy its forest- and lakeland must be protected.2. Specially developed areas to provide for wild-land recreational use is necessary to enable people to participate in outdoor experiences. An expanding provincial parks system is fundamental to this.3. Multiple-use of public lands, including parks, is fundamental to a full land use concept. A waste of a resource is contrary to the public interest.4. There should always be a practice of reserving public lands for park purposes, incorporating the multiple-use concept, in order to avoid a possible development that is not compatible with the main potentials of the land.5. The recreational resource in forest areas is very real and must be part of a land use plan in which timber production and recreation, being renewable resources, should be reconciled and each developed to provide the maximum public value.

The Next West: Public Lands, Community, and Economy in the American West

1998 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 390
Author(s):  
Donald Worster ◽  
John A. Baden ◽  
Donald Snow
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
Public Lands

Doping, sport and the law: time for repeal of prohibition?

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Crime Control ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
World Anti Doping Agency ◽  
Performance Enhancing Drugs ◽  
Drugs And Crime ◽  
Current Zero ◽  
Administrative Structures

AbstractThis article concerns the legal issues that surround the prohibition of doping in sport. The current policy on the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) in sport is underpinned by both a paternalistic desire to protect athletes' health and the long-term integrity or ‘spirit’ of sport. The policy is put into administrative effect globally by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), which provides the regulatory and legal framework through which the vast majority of international sports federations harmonise their anti-doping programmes. On outlining briefly both the broad administrative structures of international sport's various anti-doping mechanisms, and specific legal issues that arise in disciplinary hearings involving athletes accused of doping, this article questions the sustainability of the current ‘zero tolerance’ approach, arguing, by way of analogy to the wider societal debate on the criminalisation of drugs, and as informed by Sunstein and Thaler's theory of libertarian paternalism, that current policy on anti-doping has failed. Moreover, rather than the extant moral and punitive panic regarding doping in sport, this article, drawing respectively on Seddon's and Simon's work on the history of drugs and crime control mentality, contends that, as an alternative, harm reductionist measures should be promoted, including consideration of the medically supervised use of certain PEDs.

Public Lands and Political Meaning: Ranchers, the Government, and the Property between Them. By Karen R. Merrill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xix, 274. $50.00.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-283
Author(s):  
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
American West ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Public Land ◽  
The Political ◽  
Land Use Regulations ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government

The objective of this book by Karen Merrill is to use the history of public land policy to better understand the political history of the American West since 1870 and the recurring tensions between government, ranchers, and environmentalists. Although the book is aimed primarily at political historians, it is a useful reference for economic historians interested in property rights and land-use regulations.

scholarly journals National monuments and economic growth in the American West

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. eaay8523
Author(s):  
Margaret Walls ◽  
Patrick Lee ◽  
Matthew Ashenfarb
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
American West ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Interest ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
West Region ◽  
National Monuments ◽  
Mountain West

National monuments in the United States are protected lands that contain historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, or other objects of historic or scientific interest. Their designations are often contentious. Opponents argue that monuments hurt local economies by limiting uses of public lands, while supporters counter that monuments create a new amenity-driven economy. We use panel data on all business establishments in the eight-state Mountain West region to estimate economic impacts of 14 monument designations over a 25-year period. We find that monuments increased the average number of establishments and jobs in areas near monuments; increased the average establishment growth rate; had no effect, positive or negative, on the number of jobs in establishments that existed pre-designation; and had no effect on mining and other industries that use public lands. On net, protecting lands as national monuments has been more help than hindrance to local economies in the American West.

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