NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Visual Preferences of Travelers Along the Blue Ridge Parkway

Robert H. Becker is Professor with the Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. His major interests involve the human use of natural resources and the allocation of those resources among user groups.

Gregory J. Buhyoff is Professor of Forestry and Assistant Director for Research and Graduate Studies in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Resources at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. His current interests are in quantitative applications in natural resource management.

Timothy R. Day is an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at California State Polytechnic College, Pomona, California. His research interests include viewer resource management and computer applications in the fields of education, landscape architecture and planning.

F. Dominic Dottavio is currently Deputy Associate Regional Director for Science and Natural Resources in the Southeast Regional Office, National Park Service, Atlanta, Georgia. His interests are directed toward interdisciplinary work in both the social and natural sciences.

Nick R. Feimer is a Research Supervisor in Marketing with the Quaker Oaks Company, Chicago, Illinois.

William E. Hammitt is Professor of Forest Recreation in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. His current interests involve visual perceptions of outdoor recreation environments and recreation behavior studies.

Gary D. Hampe is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. His research interests are directed toward problems of aesthetic appreciation and park management. He also specializes in family and aging issues.

Barbara L. McDonald is a Research Coordinator with the Institute of Community and Area Development at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. Her current interests concern the assessment of spiritual values of recreational experiences.

Francis P. Noe is a Research Sociologist with the National Park Service, Southeast Regional Office, Atlanta, Georgia and adjunct professor at a number of Southeast universities. His research focuses on national, regional, and park-specific issues and appears in sociological, environmental, and leisure-recreational journals.

James F. Palmer is a Senior Research Associate with the Faculty of Environmental Studies and Institute of Environmental Policy and Planning at the State University of New York, Syracuse, New York. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on environmental perception research and has received numerous research grants for studies addressing landscape perceptions and environmental attitudes.

Michael R. Patsfall is Senior Human Resource Representative with the Lockheed Space Operations Company at Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, Florida.

Tad Redway, III is a Project Manager with Environmental Planning and Design Associates, Portland, Maine. He previously worked as a graduate assistant on the Blue Ridge Study.

Lawrence Reichardt is a planner with the Monroe County Planning Department in Rochester, New York. He also worked as a graduate assistant with the Blue Ridge Study.

Richard C. Smardon is Director of the Institute for Environmental Policy and Planning at the State University of New York, Syracuse, New York. His research interests include visual resource management, wetland assessment and environmental management and administration.

J. Douglas Wellman is Associate Professor and Leader of the Wildland Recreation Section in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Resources at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. His current interests are in wildland recreation policy and administration.