Download Exam 1 Study Guide for Outdoor Recreation Planning | FOR 3564 and more Study notes Forestry in PDF only on Docsity! Defining Leisure and Recreation Leisure is time spent away from activities like work, school, etc. Intrinsic vs. extrinsic – Intrinsic motivation is driven by an interest or enjoyment in the task itself. Extrinsic motivation comes from outside the individual and could be things like money or grades. Outdoor rec – goal oriented, influenced by your motivation. Planner can create opportunities but not make people take advantage of them. Recreational activities are activities performed while at leisure. Outdoor recreation activities are performed outside without the use of machinery? Effects on the ecosystem, availability to people, interest in activity by people. Recreation – intrinsically rewarding experience voluntarily undertaken during non-obligated time. Benefits of Outdoor Recreation 3 types of benefits – physiological, psychological, social. Option value is the value an individual places on the future use of resource. Recreation Trends 5 factors explain decline in visitation – gas prices, time spent on internet, time spent playing video games, time spent watching movies. Impacts of Recreation Policy Basis for Planning Broad policy – reflects broad view of society. Goals – Broad statement of general conditions. Specific policy – “Wolves are pests/valued.” Objectives – “Reintroduce wolves (Ex. 12 breeding pairs by 1995). Outdoor Recreation Resources Review Commission – Charged with studying the national needs and supply of outdoor recreation. In 1959 Congress created a commission of 7 citizens and 8 congress members to review outdoor recreation policy. Outcomes included the establishment of the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation to direct overall policy. LWCF – Land and Water Conservation Fund inventoried and classified outdoor recreation opportunities. PLLRC – Public Land Law Review - Established to review federal public laws and regulations and to recommend public land policy. National Park Service for preservation. US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management under multi- use sustained yield act The Anthropocene Humans have altered state of the earth so much that a new epoch has begun called the anthropocene. Started in 1945 with the second world war because of the big boom in technology.
