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Bringing Together Scientists and Resource Managers to Assess Science Needs and Address Questions Related to Conservation in a Changing Climate

Climate scientists need more and better information about the needs of decision-makers and managers, while decision-makers need better information about how a changing climate may affect their management and conservation objectives. The goal of this project was to build connections between the Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (PPP-LCC), the North Central Climate Scien
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Climate Adaptation Science Centers
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Bringing Together Scientists and Resource Managers to Assess Science Needs and Address Questions Related to Conservation in a Changing Climate

Climate scientists need more and better information about the needs of decision-makers and managers, while decision-makers need better information about how a changing climate may affect their management and conservation objectives. The goal of this project was to build connections between the Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (PPP-LCC), the North Central Climate Scien
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Estimating visitor use and economic contributions of National Park visitor spending

This chapter provides an overview of the National Park Service (NPS) methods for estimating visitor spending and calculating economic contributions of visitor spending in terms of jobs supported, wage and labor income, and total economic activity. The Visitor Spending Effects model combines visitor spending patterns and trip characteristic data with visitor use data to estimate total visitor spend
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Lynne Koontz, Catherine Cullinane Thomas
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Developing an expert elicited simulation model to evaluate invasive species and fire management alternatives

Invasive species can alter ecosystem properties and cause state shifts in landscapes. Resource managers charged with maintaining landscapes require tools to understand implications of alternative actions (or inactions) on landscape structure and function. Simulation models can serve as a virtual laboratory to explore these alternatives and their potential impacts on a landscape. To be useful, howe
Authors
Catherine S. Jarnevich, Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Nicholas E. Young, Dana M. Backer, Sarah A. Cline, Leonardo Frid, Perry Grissom
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center, Wildland Fire Science

National Park Service socioeconomic monitoring pilot survey: Visitor spending analysis

The National Park Service (NPS) is in the process of establishing a formal socioeconomic monitoring (SEM) program that will provide a standard visitor survey instrument and a long-term, systematic sampling design for in-park visitor surveys. The development of the pilot SEM survey provided the opportunity to add to the set of available visitor spending profiles for use in the NPS Visitor Spending
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Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Egan Cornachione, Lynne Koontz, Christopher Keyes
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

2018 National Park visitor spending effects: Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the nation

No abstract available. 
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Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz, Egan Cornachione
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Economic Impacts of Restoration in National Parks

The National Park Service’s (NPS) Resource Protection Branch (RPB) works with parks under the authority of the System Unit Resource Protection Act (SURPA) and the Oil Pollution Act, among others, to conduct damage assessment and restoration activities for NPS resources that have been injured. Funds used for restoration support jobs in local economies across the Nation. This report demonstrates the
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Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Noah Van Gilder, Mark VanMouwerik
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

2017 National Park visitor spending effects : Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the Nation

The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports a considerable amount of economic activity within park gateway communities. This economic effects analysis measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generatin
Authors
Catherine M. Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz, Egan Cornachione
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Species Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center

2016 National Park visitor spending effects: Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the Nation

The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports a considerable amount of economic activity within park gateway communities. This economic effects analysis measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generatin
Authors
Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Visitor spending effects: assessing and showcasing America's investment in national parks

This paper provides an overview of the evolution, future, and global applicability of the U.S. National Park Service's (NPS) visitor spending effects framework and discusses the methods used to effectively communicate the economic return on investment in America's national parks. The 417 parks represent many of America's most iconic destinations: in 2016, they received a record 331 million visits.
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Lynne Koontz, Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Pamela Ziesler, Jeffrey Olson, Bret Meldrum
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge comprehensive conservation plan

No abstract available.
Authors
Catherine M. Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Estimating the economic impacts of ecosystem restoration—Methods and case studies

Federal investments in ecosystem restoration projects protect Federal trusts, ensure public health and safety, and preserve and enhance essential ecosystem services. These investments also generate business activity and create jobs. It is important for restoration practitioners to be able to quantify the economic impacts of individual restoration projects in order to communicate the contribution o
Authors
Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Christopher Huber, Kristin Skrabis, Joshua Sidon
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

2015 National Park visitor spending effects: Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the nation

The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports a considerable amount of economic activity within park gateway communities. This economic effects analysis measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generatin
Authors
Catherine M. Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Benefits and limitations of using decision analytic tools to assess uncertainty and prioritize Landscape Conservation Cooperative information needs

The Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are a network of partnerships throughout North America that are tasked with integrating science and management to support more effective delivery of conservation at a landscape scale. In order to achieve this integration, some LCCs have adopted the approach of providing their partners with better scientific information in an effort to facilitate more
Authors
Max Post van der Burg, Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Tracy R. Holcombe, Richard D. Nelson
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Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center

Science and Products

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Image: Prairie Pothole Region

Bringing Together Scientists and Resource Managers to Assess Science Needs and Address Questions Related to Conservation in a Changing Climate

Climate scientists need more and better information about the needs of decision-makers and managers, while decision-makers need better information about how a changing climate may affect their management and conservation objectives. The goal of this project was to build connections between the Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (PPP-LCC), the North Central Climate Scien
By
Climate Adaptation Science Centers
link

Bringing Together Scientists and Resource Managers to Assess Science Needs and Address Questions Related to Conservation in a Changing Climate

Climate scientists need more and better information about the needs of decision-makers and managers, while decision-makers need better information about how a changing climate may affect their management and conservation objectives. The goal of this project was to build connections between the Plains and Prairie Potholes Landscape Conservation Cooperative (PPP-LCC), the North Central Climate Scien
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Estimating visitor use and economic contributions of National Park visitor spending

This chapter provides an overview of the National Park Service (NPS) methods for estimating visitor spending and calculating economic contributions of visitor spending in terms of jobs supported, wage and labor income, and total economic activity. The Visitor Spending Effects model combines visitor spending patterns and trip characteristic data with visitor use data to estimate total visitor spend
Authors
Lynne Koontz, Catherine Cullinane Thomas
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Developing an expert elicited simulation model to evaluate invasive species and fire management alternatives

Invasive species can alter ecosystem properties and cause state shifts in landscapes. Resource managers charged with maintaining landscapes require tools to understand implications of alternative actions (or inactions) on landscape structure and function. Simulation models can serve as a virtual laboratory to explore these alternatives and their potential impacts on a landscape. To be useful, howe
Authors
Catherine S. Jarnevich, Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Nicholas E. Young, Dana M. Backer, Sarah A. Cline, Leonardo Frid, Perry Grissom
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center, Wildland Fire Science

National Park Service socioeconomic monitoring pilot survey: Visitor spending analysis

The National Park Service (NPS) is in the process of establishing a formal socioeconomic monitoring (SEM) program that will provide a standard visitor survey instrument and a long-term, systematic sampling design for in-park visitor surveys. The development of the pilot SEM survey provided the opportunity to add to the set of available visitor spending profiles for use in the NPS Visitor Spending
Authors
Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Egan Cornachione, Lynne Koontz, Christopher Keyes
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

2018 National Park visitor spending effects: Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the nation

No abstract available. 
Authors
Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz, Egan Cornachione
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Economic Impacts of Restoration in National Parks

The National Park Service’s (NPS) Resource Protection Branch (RPB) works with parks under the authority of the System Unit Resource Protection Act (SURPA) and the Oil Pollution Act, among others, to conduct damage assessment and restoration activities for NPS resources that have been injured. Funds used for restoration support jobs in local economies across the Nation. This report demonstrates the
Authors
Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Noah Van Gilder, Mark VanMouwerik
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

2017 National Park visitor spending effects : Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the Nation

The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports a considerable amount of economic activity within park gateway communities. This economic effects analysis measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generatin
Authors
Catherine M. Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz, Egan Cornachione
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Species Management Research Program, Fort Collins Science Center

2016 National Park visitor spending effects: Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the Nation

The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports a considerable amount of economic activity within park gateway communities. This economic effects analysis measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generatin
Authors
Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Visitor spending effects: assessing and showcasing America's investment in national parks

This paper provides an overview of the evolution, future, and global applicability of the U.S. National Park Service's (NPS) visitor spending effects framework and discusses the methods used to effectively communicate the economic return on investment in America's national parks. The 417 parks represent many of America's most iconic destinations: in 2016, they received a record 331 million visits.
Authors
Lynne Koontz, Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Pamela Ziesler, Jeffrey Olson, Bret Meldrum
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Kīlauea Point National Wildlife Refuge comprehensive conservation plan

No abstract available.
Authors
Catherine M. Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Estimating the economic impacts of ecosystem restoration—Methods and case studies

Federal investments in ecosystem restoration projects protect Federal trusts, ensure public health and safety, and preserve and enhance essential ecosystem services. These investments also generate business activity and create jobs. It is important for restoration practitioners to be able to quantify the economic impacts of individual restoration projects in order to communicate the contribution o
Authors
Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Christopher Huber, Kristin Skrabis, Joshua Sidon
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

2015 National Park visitor spending effects: Economic contributions to local communities, states, and the nation

The National Park Service (NPS) manages the Nation’s most iconic destinations that attract millions of visitors from across the Nation and around the world. Trip-related spending by NPS visitors generates and supports a considerable amount of economic activity within park gateway communities. This economic effects analysis measures how NPS visitor spending cycles through local economies, generatin
Authors
Catherine M. Cullinane Thomas, Lynne Koontz
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Fort Collins Science Center

Benefits and limitations of using decision analytic tools to assess uncertainty and prioritize Landscape Conservation Cooperative information needs

The Landscape Conservation Cooperatives (LCCs) are a network of partnerships throughout North America that are tasked with integrating science and management to support more effective delivery of conservation at a landscape scale. In order to achieve this integration, some LCCs have adopted the approach of providing their partners with better scientific information in an effort to facilitate more
Authors
Max Post van der Burg, Catherine Cullinane Thomas, Tracy R. Holcombe, Richard D. Nelson
By
Ecosystems Mission Area, Climate Adaptation Science Centers, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
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