The idea of a National Park contains a diversity of values and missions. This paper takes a multi-dimensional, context-specific approach to measuring the perceived values of Yellowstone National Park. It is an initial step in recording how perceptions of National Parks are changing over time. Responses of 1064 winter visitors to 24 park value items were factor and cluster analyzed to produce fo...

OBJECTIVE To identify search and rescue (SAR) trends in US National Park Service (NPS) units. METHODS A retrospective review of the US National Park Service Annual Search and Rescue Reports from 1992 to 2007 and the SAR statistics for all NPS units in 2005. RESULTS From 1992 to 2007 there were 78,488 individuals involved in 65,439 SAR incidents. These incidents ended with 2659 fatalities, 2...

807 A CASE OF UNRECOGNIZED PREGNANCY DURING CHEMOTHERAPY IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER PATIENT Jee Yoon Park, MD, Jeong Woo Park, MD, Dong Ock Lee, MD, Chan-Wook Park, MD, PhD, Joong Shin Park, MD, PhD, Jong Kwan Jun, MD, PhD, Hee Chul Syn, MD, PhD Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul; Center for Uterine Cancer, National Cancer Center, Go...

The mission of the United States (US) National Park Service (NPS) is to “conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations” (NPS, 1916). NPS currently manages 397 parks covering about 358,200 km2, or approximately 4...

The National Center on Accessibility sponsored this study to identify the perceptions and attitudes of people with physical disabilities toward their experiences related to physical accessibility in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A total of 300 questionnaires were distributed to individuals with disabilities onsite. Of these questionnaires, 122 completed and usable questionnaires were...

a Physics Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, United States b Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States c Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025, United States d National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, N...