The final report presents the findings from a nationally representative survey of the impacts of aircraft overflights on visitors to National Park Service areas. Public Law 100-91, the National Parks Overflights Act, directed the National Park Service to establish a research program to determine the nature and extent of aircraft overflight issues and concerns in the National Park System. This study is one component of the NPS research program initiated in response to Public Law 100-91. A survey of a representative sample of visitors to units of the National Park System was conducted. Specifically, this study involved surveys of visitors to 39 randomly selected units of the National Park System. This study was designed to collect data on the impacts of aircraft overflights on visitors to areas administered by the National Park Service (excluding NPS areas in Alaska). The following objectives were addressed in the study: determine the percentage of park visitors who remembered and reported hearing aircraft; determine the percentage of park visitors who reported impacts from aircraft overflights; determine the importance of 'natural quiet' to visitors; identify visitors' perceptions of the benefits of aircraft overflights; examine visitors' attitudes about the appropriateness and standards for aircraft overflight activity; and determine visitors' preferences for aircraft management strategies.


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    Title :

    Aircraft Management Studies: National Park Service Visitors Survey


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1995


    Size :

    146 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English