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Cooperative Agreement P17AC00106
Award Date
12/30/16
Completion Date
3/30/20
Dollars Obligated
$463K
Overview
Activity
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3
Subawards
2
Federal Agency
Intermountain Region
Awardee
Oregon State University (MZ4DYXE1SL98)
Federal Grant Program
15.945
Assistance Type
Cooperative Agreement
Place of Performance
Moose, WY 83012, USA
Description
Update #1
LEIGH AND STRING LAKES VISITOR USE STUDY
Posted 12/27/16, 12:00 AM
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LEIGH AND STRING LAKES VISITOR USE STUDY
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P14AC00749
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LEIGH AND STRING LAKES VISITOR USE STUDY
$463.5k
12/27/16
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PK131AAS
Data collection will focus on the social, ecological, and transportation dynamics /characteristics of the Leigh and String Lake areas of GRTE. The methods presented here will follow approaches successfully employed in similar, past efforts in GRTE with modifications and additions appropriate to the management objectives for String and Leigh Lakes. Transportation measures will include tube counters, observational counts, GPS-tracking, and resource impact assessments along the roadways and adjacent to parking areas. Intensive ecological impact and resource condition assessments will be conducted at key locations of visitor use along the lakeshores of String and Leigh Lakes and at any locations that need further examination or, if deemed important by GRTE managers, extend the rapid assessment to areas such as Jenny Lake and Paintbrush Canyon. Paired with the ecological assessment described above, a mixed-methods approach will be used to understand the social components of the system. GPS-based measurements and observational techniques will take place in both 2017 and 2018. Survey methodologies will be a key component to understand visitor use and experiences in the system. Surveys will be conducted in 2017 and 2018. Survey activities will take place at key trailheads and at important lakeshore areas along both String and Leigh Lake. Surveys will be administered in a stratified random sampling design and ensure that all activity types are represented. Additionally, to provide managers with the most comprehensive information observational data will be combined with survey techniques. Thus survey responses can be linked to the actual behavior of visitors, rather than solely relying on self-reported measures.
Utah State University
Cooperative Agreement P17AC00106
$42.9k
3/9/17
PK131ABS
Survey methodologies will be a key component to understand visitor use and experiences in the system. The 2017 survey will inform the development of indicators of quality that align with the social and ecological resources of the area. Subsequently, results will inform the development a robust quantitative survey, for determination of thresholds of acceptability in 2018. Observed use levels and activity types, levels of resource impacts, and levels of parking lot use will be integrated to inform the development of possible thresholds. Additionally, since String and Leigh Lakes are within recommended wilderness, survey questions will be developed with indicators of wilderness characteristics and wilderness-specific concepts (e.g., solitude, soundscapes, resource conditions, etc.). Survey activities will take place at key trailheads and at important lakeshore areas along both String and Leigh Lake. Surveys will be administered in a stratified random sampling design and ensure that all activity types are represented. Additionally, to provide managers with the most comprehensive information observational data will be combined with survey techniques. Thus survey responses can be linked to the actual behavior of visitors, rather than solely relying on self-reported measures. Data from the visitor surveys will be linked in space and time to descriptive data including GPS tracks of visitors, as well as transportation parameters such as the flow of vehicles into parking areas. This will allow researchers to relate how transportation parameters influence visitor use in the trail network. This also provides data that can be used to link potential management actions to on the ground conditions related to visitor use indicators and standards of quality. Using these integrative data, managers can develop effective indicators of visitor use and understand when use thresholds might be exceeded within a trail network and at visitor sites before it actually occurs, based on the relationship between transportation flow rates, visitor arrivals, and experiential conditions up the trail. Specifically, the research team from Penn State University will do the following: * Create 2017 and 2018 survey instruments and associated data collection strategies; * Complete Office of Management and Budget (OMB) requirements for social science survey administration; * Complete data analyses on survey data, and integrate findings with the descriptive information collected by OSU and USU. * Develop an integrative final report, associated presentations, and any potential peer-reviewed manuscripts in collaboration with OSU and USU.
The Pennsylvania State University
Cooperative Agreement P17AC00106
$97.9k
4/24/17