scholarly journals Herpetofaunal Inventories of the National Parks of South Florida and the Caribbean: Volume II. Virgin Islands National Park

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Rice ◽  
J. Hardin Waddle ◽  
Marquette E. Crockett ◽  
R.R. Carthy ◽  
H. Franklin Percival
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
South Florida ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Herpetofaunal inventories of the National Parks of South Florida and the Caribbean: Volume I. Everglades National Park

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Rice ◽  
J. Hardin Waddle ◽  
Marquette E. Crockett ◽  
Brian M. Jeffery ◽  
H. Frankin Percival
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Everglades National Park ◽  
The Caribbean

scholarly journals Herpetofaunal Inventories of the National Parks of South Florida and the Caribbean: Volume IV. Biscayne National Park

2007 ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Rice ◽  
J. Hardin Waddle ◽  
Marquette E. Crockett ◽  
Christopher D. Bugbee ◽  
Brian M. Jeffery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
South Florida ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Biscayne National Park

A Public's Awareness of Regional Parks and Park Management Agencies with Implications for Management-oriented Interpretation

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-64
Author(s):  
Carin E. Vadala ◽  
Robert D. Bixler ◽  
William E. Hammitt
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
National Park Service ◽  
South Florida ◽  
Park Management ◽  
Evaluation Strategies ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Management Issues

South Florida summer residents (n=1806) from five counties (Broward, Collier, Lee, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties) were asked to recall the names of two units of the National Park Service and, when prompted, to recognize each of the four national park units located in south Florida. Only 8.4% of respondents could name two units of the National Park Service, yet when prompted many more stated that they had at least heard of the national parks in south Florida. Interpreters may be able to help raise visitor awareness of resource management issues by including information about the role of the agency in their talks or as part of their interpretive theme. Suggestions for further research and evaluation strategies are provided.

scholarly journals Herpetofaunal Inventories of the National Parks of South Florida and the Caribbean: Volume III. Big Cypress National Preserve

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth G. Rice ◽  
J. Hardin Waddle ◽  
Marquette E. Crockett ◽  
Brian M. Jeffrey ◽  
Amanda N. Rice ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
South Florida ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
National Preserve

Herpetofaunal community response to hurricanes Irma and Maria in Virgin Islands National Park

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Collin J. Richter ◽  
Samantha M. DiGiulio ◽  
Craig D. Marshall ◽  
Jill B.K. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Community Response ◽  
Community Associations ◽  
Climate Shifts ◽  
Hurricane Season ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
The Caribbean

Abstract Disturbances are critical for maintaining environmental heterogeneity and biodiversity across landscapes. Hurricanes represent a common disturbance in the Caribbean Sea. These storms are predicted to become more frequent and severe as climate shifts. Understanding how island communities respond to disturbances is critical to their conservation. We surveyed Virgin Islands National Park located on the island of St. John in the Caribbean Sea in 2016 and 2018 to evaluate prolonged herpetofauna community response and resistance to hurricanes. These surveys occurred in March 2016, and June 2018, before and after the 2017 hurricane season, when hurricanes Irma and Maria struck St. John. Using visual encounter surveys, vocalisation surveys, and opportunistic encounters, we surveyed trails within the park through five landscape cover types pre- and post-hurricane. We used linear regression to determine differences in diversity and species richness among landscape cover types and between pre- and post-hurricane surveys and non-metric multidimensional scaling to observe associations among species and landscape cover types pre- and post-hurricane surveys. We determined that there were no significant changes in landscape cover and herpetofauna community associations before and after the 2017 hurricane season, indicating that the herpetofauna communities of Virgin Islands National Park are well adapted to hurricane-related disturbance.

Coercion, voluntary compliance and protest: the role of trust and legitimacy in combating local opposition to protected areas

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARC J. STERN
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Great Smoky Mountains ◽  
Voluntary Compliance ◽  
Effective Performance ◽  
Effective Deterrent ◽  
Local Opposition ◽  
Equitable Treatment

SUMMARYProtected areas (PAs) have long struggled to successfully enforce compliance with their regulations. Even some of the best-funded PAs in the world face shortcomings in using enforcement as an effective deterrent to PA opposition. This suggests that traditional enforcement on its own may be insufficient for effective resource protection. Research was undertaken to understand why some would-be offenders refrain from harmful actions toward neighbouring national parks while others do not. Perceptions of the trustworthiness of PA managers were the most consistent predictors of exercised restraint on behalf of those living within the immediate vicinities of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Virgin Islands National Park and Podocarpus National Park. These trust assessments were most commonly based upon respondents' perceptions of positive personal interactions between PA managers and the public, of PA managers' receptiveness to local input, of the benefits and disadvantages associated with PA presence, and of PA officials' effective performance of their duties and equitable treatment of different groups. The study reveals trust and legitimacy as key factors related to voluntary compliance in situations where general agreement with PA regulations does not necessarily exist and provides insight into how trust and legitimacy can be developed or eroded.

Degradation of marine ecosystems and decline of fishery resources in marine protected areas in the US Virgin Islands

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 312-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline S. Rogers ◽  
Jim Beets
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
National Park ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Us Virgin Islands ◽  
Fishery Resources ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Intensive Fishing

The large number of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Caribbean (over 100) gives a misleading impression of the amount of protection the reefs and other marine resources in this region are receiving. This review synthesizes information on marine resources in two of the first MPAs established in the USA, namely Virgin Islands National Park (1962) and Buck Island Reef National Monument (1961), and provides compelling evidence that greater protection is needed, based on data from some of the longest running research projects on coral reefs, reef fish assemblages, and seagrass beds for the Caribbean. Most of the stresses affecting marine resources throughout the Caribbean (e.g. damage from boats, hurricanes and coral diseases) are also causing deterioration in these MPAs. Living coral cover has decreased and macroalgal cover has increased. Seagrass densities have decreased because of storms and anchor damage. Intensive fishing in the US Virgin Islands has caused loss of spawning aggregations and decreases in mean fish size and abundance. Groupers and snappers are far less abundant and herbivorous fishes comprise a greater proportion of samples than in the 1960s. Effects of intensive fishing are evident even within MPA boundaries. Although only traditional fishing with traps of ‘conventional design’ is allowed, commercial trap fishing is occurring. Visual samples of fishes inside and outside Virgin Islands National Park showed no significant differences in number of species, biomass, or mean size of fishes. Similarly, the number of fishes per trap was statistically similar inside and outside park waters. These MPAs have not been effective because an unprecedented combination of natural and human factors is assaulting the resources, some of the greatest damage is from stresses outside the control of park managers (e.g. hurricanes), and enforcement of the few regulations has been limited. Fully functioning MPAs which prohibit fishing and other extractive uses (e.g. no-take marine reserves) could reverse some of the degradation, allowing replenishment of the fishery resources and recovery of benthic habitats.

Geology and hydrogeology of the Caribbean islands aquifer system of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A. Renken ◽  
W. C. Ward ◽  
I.P. Gill ◽  
Fernando Gómez-Gómez ◽  
Jesús Rodríguez-Martínez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Aquifer System ◽  
Caribbean Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The U.S

From Competition to Cooperation: A History of Canada–US National Park Relations

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terence Young ◽  
Alan MacEachern ◽  
Lary Dilsaver
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
National Park ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Us ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
The Relationship

This essay explores the evolving international relationship of the two national park agencies that in 1968 began to offer joint training classes for protected-area managers from around the world. Within the British settler societies that dominated nineteenth century park-making, the United States’ National Park Service (NPS) and Canada’s National Parks Branch were the most closely linked and most frequently cooperative. Contrary to campfire myths and nationalist narratives, however, the relationship was not a one-way flow of information and motivation from the US to Canada. Indeed, the latter boasted a park bureaucracy before the NPS was established. The relationship of the two nations’ park leaders in the half century leading up to 1968 demonstrates the complexity of defining the influences on park management and its diffusion from one country to another.

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