Rudolph Schuster - USGS

Policy Analysis & Science Assistance

Branch Chief/Social Scientist

Duty Station:
Fort Collins Science Center
2150 Centre Ave
Bldg C
Fort Collins, CO 80526

Phone: 970-226-9165
Fax: 970.226.9230
Email: schusterr@usgs.gov

Current Research

• Decision Support Systems for Choosing Appropriate Economic Analyses for Federal Land Management Planning
• Training and Technical Assistance for Public Lands Management and Planning
• Socioeconomic Considerations for Public Lands Management and Planning
• Program Assessment for Agencies of the Department of the Interior
• Socioeconomics, including Perception, Values, and Knowledge of Landscape-Scale Change

Products

Publications

Total Records:36

• An exploratory analysis of coping schemes used by paddlers who camped in the St. Regis Canoe Area, New York
• Using destination image to predict visitors' intention to revisit three Hudson River Valley, New York, communities
• Behavioral intentions within off-highway vehicle communities in the northeastern U.S.: an application of the theory of planned behavior
• Campers' perspectives about boating in the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest, New York
• Recreation-related values, attitudes, and beliefs of business owners in the Saranac Lakes region of New York State's Adirondack Park
• Questioning the continuum: Specialization in rock climbing
• An exploratory study of OHV riders in New York State: findings and implications for management
• Lows Lake Primitive Area visitor study
• St. Regis Canoe Area visitor and campsite study
• Outdoor recreation management: Today’s actions and tomorrow’s expectations
• Recreation-related perceptions of natural resource managers in the Saranac Lakes Wild Forest area
• Appraisal of and response to social conditions in the Great Gulf Wilderness: Relationships among perceived crowding, rationalization, product shift, satisfaction, and future behavioral intentions
• Expansion of the wilderness values scale with three sub-scales: Personal maintenance, expression and learning, and societal maintenance
• Fostering children’s connections to natural places through cultural and natural history storytelling
• Visitor perceptions of crowding: An exploratory study in the Mohonk Preserve
• Stress appraisal and coping response to hassles experienced in outdoor recreation settings
• Coping with stress resulting from social value conflict: Non-hunter's response to social interaction with hunters
• Voluntary BMP implementation by NIPF owners in New York City's water supply system
• Book Review of: Rewilding North America: A vision for conservation in the 21st Century, by Dave Forman
• Measurement of direct-use wilderness values: A qualitative study
• Proceedings of the 2005 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium
• Understanding of cultural, existence and bequest values of wilderness
• The multiple values of wilderness: A national assessment of the values of the national wilderness preservation system
• Stress and coping in the High Peaks wilderness: An exploratory assessment of visitor experiences
• "They all cared about the forest": Elementary school children's experiences of the loss of a wooded play space at a private school in upstate New York
• The social values of wilderness
• “We’re trying to make this picture come alive again”: An examination of how site history is presented to school groups at Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum, Chittenango, New York
• Storytelling as a means of fostering children’s connections to natural landscapes
• Emotional coping response to hassles and stress experienced in wilderness settings
• A theoretical model to measure the appraisal and coping response to hassles in outdoor recreation settings
• Proceedings of the 2002 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium: Bolton Landing, New York - April 13-16
• Visitor experiences of stress and reported hassles in the Shining Rock Wilderness Area
• Rock Climbers’ attitudes toward the management and use of bolts
• Wilderness use in the next 100 years
• Effective coping strategies in stressful outdoor recreation situations: Conflict on the Ocoee River
• Understanding the visitor’s experience at Fort Sumter National Monument