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“Roads, Recreation, and Resource Protection: A Reconciliation Ecology Approach”
Dale Blahna is on the faculty at Utah State University. He is an associate professor in the Environment and Society Department and a Research Scientist with the Institute for Outdoor Recreation and Tourism. His research interests include outdoor recreation behavior, public involvement, community social assessment, and integrated ecosystem management planning, but his passion is making social science relevant for natural resource policy and planning. He has worked on motorized travel issues with the BLM and Forest Service in Utah and Idaho, including the St. Anthony Sand Dunes, Little Sahara National Recreation, the Utah State Office and Moab District of the BLM, and the Dixie National Forest.
“Understanding the Wicked Nature of ‘Unmanaged Recreation’ in Colorado’s Front Range"
“Local Jeep Club Experience and Culture"
Jeff Brooks is a social science analyst with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins. He has earned degrees in biology, conservation ecology, and natural resource recreation while living and working in Michigan, Georgia, Florida, and Colorado. From 1990 to 1992, Jeff served as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin working in health extension, human parasite eradication, and rural community development. His research focus is human dimensions of natural resource management. Jeff’s current projects involve communication and the social aspects of wildland fire and fuels mitigation in the Front Range of Colorado, visitor experience and relationship to place at Rocky Mountain National Park, and a problem appraisal study for unmanaged recreation on the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest including an ethnographic study of a local 4x4 Jeep club using participant observation and interview techniques. Jeff enjoys backpacking, hiking, biking, swimming, fishing, river canoe-camping, and cooking.
“Understanding the Wicked Nature of ‘Unmanaged Recreation’ in Colorado’s Front Range"
Patty Champ is an economist with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station in Fort Collins. Her interests include validity issues associated with nonmarket valuation methods, survey research issues, allocation mechanisms for recreational opportunities on public lands, and issues associated with institutional arrangements and incentives.
“Arizona Multi - Agency Route Inventory”
Bill Gibson serves as the BLM Arizona State Office Trails and Travel Management Lead in Phoenix, AZ. He helps a team that is developing the roads and trails data requirements for Facility Asset Management System (FAMS), BLM's MAXIMO assets data base. He also serves on a related BLM team to develop condition assessment protocols for roads and trails. Bill has served as an archeologist, land use planning specialist, and outdoor recreation planner.
“Over-Sand Driving at Cape Cod: Research to Begin Managing the OHV Experience
Jeffrey Hallo is a doctoral student in natural resources at the University of Vermont’s Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources. His research focuses on the social aspects of outdoor recreation, and specifically crowding and related concepts as applied to public lands. Jeff is currently involved in projects that study off-road vehicle use at Cape Cod and vehicle use at both Denali and Acadia National Parks.
Kreg Lindberg is Associate Professor and head of the Outdoor Recreation Leadership and Tourism program at Oregon State University’s Cascades Campus in Bend, OR. He previously worked in the Colorado State University Department of Natural Resource Recreation and Tourism, Griffith University School of Tourism and Hotel Management (Australia), the Institute of Transport Economics (Norway), and the Charles Sturt University School of Environmental and Information Sciences (Australia). He has a Ph.D. in forest social science with a minor in economics from Oregon State University.
His professional interest areas include recreation conflict and management, as well as tourism’s economic and social impacts. He has consulted and conducted research in the United States, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, South Africa, Poland, China, Indonesia, and Belize.
His projects have been funded by organizations such as the US Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service (Australia), Tourism Queensland, the International Ecotourism Society (TIES), the European Union, the Norwegian Research Council, the World Bank, the FAO, Australian Commonwealth Department of Tourism, U.S. National Park Service, New South Wales (Australia) National Parks & Wildlife Service, World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US), and the World Resources Institute.
“Using Economic and Population Forecasts to Address Travel and Tourism Issues in Western Colorado”
Mike Retzlaff is the Regional Economist & Social Science Coordinator with the USDA-Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region. He earned his BS degree in Watershed Science, and MS Economics, both at Colorado State University. Mike has worked twenty-four years as economist in Denver, Albuquerque, and Washington, DC working on community effects, budgets, and economic analyses of Forest Service programs and projects. Six years as a forest planner or planning staff officer on the Routt National Forest working on Wild and Scenic River studies and Forest planning.
“Forest Service Travel Management Rule Implementation”
Francisco Valenzuela is the Forest Service recreation planner and dispersed recreation manager for the Rocky Mountain Region. He is responsible for recreation planning leadership and oversight on more than 22 million acres of America’s Forests and Grasslands in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. Francisco has an extensive background of experience in recreation. Francisco has over 30 years of experience in recreation management and planning, starting with the Youth Conservation Corp as an enrollee with the state of Colorado while in high school. He has been the Eastern Region of the Forest Service regional recreation planner and has lead recreation planning efforts in the tropical rain forest of Puerto Rico, at Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument.
He has consulted and provided training in the United States, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Honduras, and Jordan. His professional interests include the development of social norms, recreation conflict, collaboration, environmental justice, economic evaluation of recreation programs, environmental education and interpretation, trail design and ecologically sustainable recreation. Francisco received a Bachelor of Science in recreation management from Colorado State University. Francisco enjoys all forms of outdoor recreation, particularly technical climbing, and is a passionate photographer.
The Route Evaluation Tree Process©
Les Weeks has worked closely with numerous local, state and federal agencies for the past 21 years. He has successfully managed several controversial projects including complicated public and private land acquisitions and State Park general planning processes including National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Endangered Species Act (ESA) documentation. Mr. Weeks has extensive experience in land use planning and public outreach developed from his work for the State of California for 7 years and his work in private industry.
Mr. Weeks established Advanced Resource Solutions, Inc. (ARS) approximately 5 years ago. ARS is a multi-disciplinary environmental consulting firm specializing in recreation and travel management planning, public outreach, facilitation and mediation, and the preparation of environmental documentation. As part of his belief that environmental planning should be based upon statutory authority, Mr. Weeks developed the Route Evaluation Tree Process © as a tool to assist land management agencies with their travel management planning, including route evaluation and designation.
In addition to his expertise in travel management planning, Mr. Weeks has a strong background in facilitation of controversial projects, recreation planning and general land use planning. A great deal of this experience has centered on working with agencies on land use documents that include as a major component controversial issues related to the management of public access (including off-highway vehicle recreation), in locations often characterized by sensitive habitats or species. Mr. Weeks’ experience also includes facilitating workshops, guiding the public through the Route Evaluation Tree Process ©, and providing outreach to the public, including the OHV community, recreational user groups, environmental community, hunters, equestrians, miners, rock hounds, campers, explorers, and local and state governmental representatives. Mr. Weeks received his Masters degree in biogeography and his undergraduate degree in ecosystems analysis with a minor in biology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His post-graduate work includes continuing education in land use planning issues with emphasis on NEPA and ESA.
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“Using Economic and Population Forecasts to Address Travel and Tourism Issues in Western Colorado”
Jim is currently the Senior Demographer in the Colorado Demography Office, Division of Local Government, and Colorado Department of Local Affairs. Jim’s area of expertise is in Economic Data, analysis, forecasts, Economic & Demographic Relationships. Jim has been with the Demography Section for 23 years (1983 to present). He worked 12 years as the Projections Demographer and 10 years as Director. Jim served as an Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture and Planning at University of Colorado at Denver and the Director of Comprehensive Planning for the Philadelphia Metropolitan Planning Organization. Jim received has earned three Masters degrees in Business Administration from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Regional Science / Economics Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Masters in City and Regional Planning from the School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania.
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