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Usda Forest Service General Technical Report Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1979
... To view and search these records, you can purchase daily or weekly access to the database for... more ... To view and search these records, you can purchase daily or weekly access to the database for as little as £15 / 20 / $25 ... Buy Instant Access ». Title Scenic beauty estimation model: predicting perceived beauty of forest landscapes. ...
This document is part of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project, a pilot p... more This document is part of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project, a pilot project initiated by the USDA Forest Service to respond to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects. The information addresses fuel and forest conditions of the dry inland forests of the Western United States: those dominated by ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, dry grand fir/white fir, and dry lodgepole pine potential vegetation types. Information was developed primarily for application at the stand level and is intended to be useful within this forest type regardless of ownership. Portions of the information also will be directly applicable to the pinyon pine/juniper potential vegetation types. Many of the concepts and tools developed by the project may be useful for planning fuel projects in other forest types. In particular, many of the social science findings would have direct applicability to fuel planning activities for forests throughout the United States. As is the case in the use of all models and information developed for specific purposes, our tools should be used with a full understanding of their limitations and applicability. The science team, although organized functionally, worked hard at integrating the approaches, analyses, and tools. It is the collective effort of the team members that provides the depth and understanding of the work. The science team leadership included Deputy Science Team Leader Sarah McCaffrey
Journal of Forestry Washington, May 31, 1984
Page 1. modified through educational efforts. Well-organized programs can do much to inform the p... more Page 1. modified through educational efforts. Well-organized programs can do much to inform the pub-lic about possible uses, impacts, and risks. These programs can include encouraging media coverage of prescribed fires ...
Rating scales provide an efficient and widely used means of recording judgments. This paper revie... more Rating scales provide an efficient and widely used means of recording judgments. This paper reviews scaling issues within the context of a psychometric model of the rating process and describes several methods of scaling rating data. The scaling procedures include the simple mean, standardized values, scale values based on Thurstone's Law of Categorical Judgment, and regression-based values. The scaling methods are compared in terms of the assumptions they require about the rating process and the information they provide about the underlying psychological dimension being assessed.
Forest Science, Nov 30, 1982
ABSTRACT. The scenic beauty of sixty-four forest vista landscapes from the Colorado Front Range w... more ABSTRACT. The scenic beauty of sixty-four forest vista landscapes from the Colorado Front Range was measured for a large group of subjects (observers) by the Scenic Beauty Estimation Method. Some of the landscapes evidenced insect-damaged trees and stands. One ...
Journal of Environmental Psychology, Dec 1, 1993
... 891918. TC Daniel and RS Boster, Measuring landscape aesthetics: the scenic beauty estimatio... more ... 891918. TC Daniel and RS Boster, Measuring landscape aesthetics: the scenic beauty estimation method, USDA Forest Service Research Paper RM-167, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, New York, NY (1976). ...
Landscape Ecology, May 24, 2007
This collaborative essay grows out of a debate about the relationship between aesthetics and ecol... more This collaborative essay grows out of a debate about the relationship between aesthetics and ecology and the possibility of an ''ecological aesthetic'' that affects landscape planning, design, and management. We describe our common understandings and unresolved questions about this relationship, including the importance of aesthetics in understanding and affecting landscape change and the ways in which aesthetics and ecology may have either complementary or contradictory implications for a landscape. To help understand these issues, we first outline a conceptual model of the aestheticsecology relationship. We posit that:
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 08941929409380886, Nov 21, 2008
ABSTRACT There are two essential questions that need to be addressed by both social science resea... more ABSTRACT There are two essential questions that need to be addressed by both social science researchers and public land managers: (1) What values do people assign to forest ecosystems? and (2) What is the best research strategy for understanding those values? To answer the first question, a number of contemporary definitions of value are considered, and a human preference‐based definition is advocated as the most appropriate for scientific inquiry and for guiding public environmental policy. To answer the second question, the strategies of methodological pluralism and critical multiplism are compared. Methodological pluralism risks equating opinion and fact. Critical multiplism, it is argued, provides the best strategy for understanding the multifaceted values people assign to forests. The combination of the public‐preference‐based definition and the critical multiplism strategy offers the best opportunity for the development afforest ecosystem management policies that balance facts (i.e., biophysical functions) with values (i.e., human preferences).
Forest Science, May 31, 1986
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
Investigated temporal parameters of recognition memory for pictures and words in a reaction time ... more Investigated temporal parameters of recognition memory for pictures and words in a reaction time experiment with 26 undergraduates. Dark-adapted Ss self-initiated 250-msec exposures of arrays containing 8 different stimuli-either pictorial silhouettes or corresponding block-lettered verbal labels-in the peripheral cells of a 3 * 3 grid. Following every array and a subsequent 3-sec delay interval, a test item-either a 4-letter word
Although professional foresters share a reasonably precise and consistent language for describing... more Although professional foresters share a reasonably precise and consistent language for describing forest conditions, this language is not always understood by the public. Therefore, verbal surveys alone are not sufficient for determining public preferences for future forest conditions. Orland and Ursavas (this volume) present one way for managers to communicate with the public about alternative forest management options and outcomes. Realistic and biologically accurate visualizations of future forest conditions can help translate complex biophysical data into meaningful information that concerned citizens can understand. Such carefully created visualizations can aid manager-public communication in a number of contexts including informal "what-do-you-think-about-this" conversations, formal public meetings, research focus groups, and systematic surveys of public opinion. This paper describes findings from a survey of residents and visitors to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) and Gunflint Trail area in Minnesota. Participants expressed their preferences for forest management alternatives based on computer visualizations (pictures) of predicted outcomes over time. Because management actions influence forest conditions for decades, it is not sufficient to assess preferences between options at only one point in time. Rather, each management option is best represented as a series of forest conditions that change over years. For this survey, computer-generated visualizations of projected forest conditions showed alternative management options for the same site over an 80-year period. Respondents viewed two projected-outcome visualizations (treatment vs. notreatment) for the same site and selected their preferred outcome from the pair. Each of the eight sites used in the study was typical of an important northern forest type in the BWCAW/Gunflint Trail study area that had been hit by a major blowdown on July 4, 1999. Five of the sites were severely affected by the blowdown (disturbed sites) and three were not significantly affected (undisturbed sites). Three treatment versus no-treatment pairs were created for one of the undisturbed sites, so there were 10 choice pairs in all. A quantitative rating-scale response format allowed precise measurement of preferences at each of five projected time-steps (2, 12, 22, 52, and 82 years after treatment), as well as overall preferences based on a review of the full 80-year progression of forest conditions.
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common object... more Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common objects. In a mixed design, 4 groups of 15 undergraduates each were tested using either pictures or words at either of 2 presentation rates. Upon an item's 2nd occurrence, which was marked to be easily distinguished as a test, Ss were required to make a judgment of
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1981
Abstract 1. Discusses the studies of LM Ward and JA Russell (see record 1982-04603-001), which ha... more Abstract 1. Discusses the studies of LM Ward and JA Russell (see record 1982-04603-001), which have confirmed that several different verbal methods yield essentially identical analyses of human perception of a diverse set of environments. The present authors ...
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common object... more Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common objects. In a mixed design, 4 groups of 15 undergraduates each were tested using either pictures or words at either of 2 presentation rates. Upon an item's 2nd occurrence, which was marked to be easily distinguished as a test, Ss were required to make a judgment of
Usda Forest Service General Technical Report Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1979
... To view and search these records, you can purchase daily or weekly access to the database for... more ... To view and search these records, you can purchase daily or weekly access to the database for as little as £15 / 20 / $25 ... Buy Instant Access ». Title Scenic beauty estimation model: predicting perceived beauty of forest landscapes. ...
This document is part of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project, a pilot p... more This document is part of the Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration Project, a pilot project initiated by the USDA Forest Service to respond to the need for tools and information useful for planning site-specific fuel (vegetation) treatment projects. The information addresses fuel and forest conditions of the dry inland forests of the Western United States: those dominated by ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, dry grand fir/white fir, and dry lodgepole pine potential vegetation types. Information was developed primarily for application at the stand level and is intended to be useful within this forest type regardless of ownership. Portions of the information also will be directly applicable to the pinyon pine/juniper potential vegetation types. Many of the concepts and tools developed by the project may be useful for planning fuel projects in other forest types. In particular, many of the social science findings would have direct applicability to fuel planning activities for forests throughout the United States. As is the case in the use of all models and information developed for specific purposes, our tools should be used with a full understanding of their limitations and applicability. The science team, although organized functionally, worked hard at integrating the approaches, analyses, and tools. It is the collective effort of the team members that provides the depth and understanding of the work. The science team leadership included Deputy Science Team Leader Sarah McCaffrey
Journal of Forestry Washington, May 31, 1984
Page 1. modified through educational efforts. Well-organized programs can do much to inform the p... more Page 1. modified through educational efforts. Well-organized programs can do much to inform the pub-lic about possible uses, impacts, and risks. These programs can include encouraging media coverage of prescribed fires ...
Rating scales provide an efficient and widely used means of recording judgments. This paper revie... more Rating scales provide an efficient and widely used means of recording judgments. This paper reviews scaling issues within the context of a psychometric model of the rating process and describes several methods of scaling rating data. The scaling procedures include the simple mean, standardized values, scale values based on Thurstone's Law of Categorical Judgment, and regression-based values. The scaling methods are compared in terms of the assumptions they require about the rating process and the information they provide about the underlying psychological dimension being assessed.
Forest Science, Nov 30, 1982
ABSTRACT. The scenic beauty of sixty-four forest vista landscapes from the Colorado Front Range w... more ABSTRACT. The scenic beauty of sixty-four forest vista landscapes from the Colorado Front Range was measured for a large group of subjects (observers) by the Scenic Beauty Estimation Method. Some of the landscapes evidenced insect-damaged trees and stands. One ...
Journal of Environmental Psychology, Dec 1, 1993
... 891918. TC Daniel and RS Boster, Measuring landscape aesthetics: the scenic beauty estimatio... more ... 891918. TC Daniel and RS Boster, Measuring landscape aesthetics: the scenic beauty estimation method, USDA Forest Service Research Paper RM-167, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, New York, NY (1976). ...
Landscape Ecology, May 24, 2007
This collaborative essay grows out of a debate about the relationship between aesthetics and ecol... more This collaborative essay grows out of a debate about the relationship between aesthetics and ecology and the possibility of an ''ecological aesthetic'' that affects landscape planning, design, and management. We describe our common understandings and unresolved questions about this relationship, including the importance of aesthetics in understanding and affecting landscape change and the ways in which aesthetics and ecology may have either complementary or contradictory implications for a landscape. To help understand these issues, we first outline a conceptual model of the aestheticsecology relationship. We posit that:
Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 08941929409380886, Nov 21, 2008
ABSTRACT There are two essential questions that need to be addressed by both social science resea... more ABSTRACT There are two essential questions that need to be addressed by both social science researchers and public land managers: (1) What values do people assign to forest ecosystems? and (2) What is the best research strategy for understanding those values? To answer the first question, a number of contemporary definitions of value are considered, and a human preference‐based definition is advocated as the most appropriate for scientific inquiry and for guiding public environmental policy. To answer the second question, the strategies of methodological pluralism and critical multiplism are compared. Methodological pluralism risks equating opinion and fact. Critical multiplism, it is argued, provides the best strategy for understanding the multifaceted values people assign to forests. The combination of the public‐preference‐based definition and the critical multiplism strategy offers the best opportunity for the development afforest ecosystem management policies that balance facts (i.e., biophysical functions) with values (i.e., human preferences).
Forest Science, May 31, 1986
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
Investigated temporal parameters of recognition memory for pictures and words in a reaction time ... more Investigated temporal parameters of recognition memory for pictures and words in a reaction time experiment with 26 undergraduates. Dark-adapted Ss self-initiated 250-msec exposures of arrays containing 8 different stimuli-either pictorial silhouettes or corresponding block-lettered verbal labels-in the peripheral cells of a 3 * 3 grid. Following every array and a subsequent 3-sec delay interval, a test item-either a 4-letter word
Although professional foresters share a reasonably precise and consistent language for describing... more Although professional foresters share a reasonably precise and consistent language for describing forest conditions, this language is not always understood by the public. Therefore, verbal surveys alone are not sufficient for determining public preferences for future forest conditions. Orland and Ursavas (this volume) present one way for managers to communicate with the public about alternative forest management options and outcomes. Realistic and biologically accurate visualizations of future forest conditions can help translate complex biophysical data into meaningful information that concerned citizens can understand. Such carefully created visualizations can aid manager-public communication in a number of contexts including informal "what-do-you-think-about-this" conversations, formal public meetings, research focus groups, and systematic surveys of public opinion. This paper describes findings from a survey of residents and visitors to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) and Gunflint Trail area in Minnesota. Participants expressed their preferences for forest management alternatives based on computer visualizations (pictures) of predicted outcomes over time. Because management actions influence forest conditions for decades, it is not sufficient to assess preferences between options at only one point in time. Rather, each management option is best represented as a series of forest conditions that change over years. For this survey, computer-generated visualizations of projected forest conditions showed alternative management options for the same site over an 80-year period. Respondents viewed two projected-outcome visualizations (treatment vs. notreatment) for the same site and selected their preferred outcome from the pair. Each of the eight sites used in the study was typical of an important northern forest type in the BWCAW/Gunflint Trail study area that had been hit by a major blowdown on July 4, 1999. Five of the sites were severely affected by the blowdown (disturbed sites) and three were not significantly affected (undisturbed sites). Three treatment versus no-treatment pairs were created for one of the undisturbed sites, so there were 10 choice pairs in all. A quantitative rating-scale response format allowed precise measurement of preferences at each of five projected time-steps (2, 12, 22, 52, and 82 years after treatment), as well as overall preferences based on a review of the full 80-year progression of forest conditions.
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common object... more Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common objects. In a mixed design, 4 groups of 15 undergraduates each were tested using either pictures or words at either of 2 presentation rates. Upon an item's 2nd occurrence, which was marked to be easily distinguished as a test, Ss were required to make a judgment of
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 1981
Abstract 1. Discusses the studies of LM Ward and JA Russell (see record 1982-04603-001), which ha... more Abstract 1. Discusses the studies of LM Ward and JA Russell (see record 1982-04603-001), which have confirmed that several different verbal methods yield essentially identical analyses of human perception of a diverse set of environments. The present authors ...
Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1974
Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common object... more Compared judgment of recency (JOR) for line drawings and printed words representing common objects. In a mixed design, 4 groups of 15 undergraduates each were tested using either pictures or words at either of 2 presentation rates. Upon an item's 2nd occurrence, which was marked to be easily distinguished as a test, Ss were required to make a judgment of