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![[LOGO: Recreation Facility Analysis]](/r3/prescott/projects/rfa/rfa-logo.jpg) Recreation
Facility Analysis*
Recreation Facility Analysis is an analysis process, used nationally, to assist
Forests in creating a sustainable program that aligns recreation sites with
visitors' desires, expectations, and use. Recreation Facility Analysis helps
ensure that recreation sites and facilities provide the appropriate mix of
opportunities within the special characteristics of each Forest.
Recreation Facility Analysis gives recreation resource managers helpful information.
Using this information they are able to develop a Forest level program of work
to operate and maintain a financially sustainable and niche-focused recreation
sites program that meets National Quality Standards. The initial product of
the process is a 5 year proposed Program of Work that will help the forest
meet the Recreation Facility Analysis goals which are:
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Provide recreation opportunities consistent
with the Forest recreation "niche".
- Niche is what the forest has
to offer in terms of special places, opportunities and potential experiences,
overlapped with what people desire and expect in terms of outdoor recreation
from public lands.
- Operate and maintain a financially sustainable recreation
sites program to accepted quality standards
- Eliminate deferred maintenance
at recreation sites.
Public input continues to be important to the Forest Service and is a critical
part of the Recreation Facility Analysis process. Forests will seek public
dialogue throughout the process.
All forests are scheduled to complete the Recreation Facility Analysis process
by the end of 2008.
Why is this recreation analysis process needed?
The Forest Service is committed to responsibly serving the public by efficiently
operating and, when necessary, modifying the services to ensure recreation
sites provide the right opportunities in the right places.
As demographics change and new challenges are presented, it is our responsibility
to respond and ensure the appropriate recreation services and facilities are
available to the public.
RFA is a process that, with the help of the public, communities, and the
private sector, will allow us to be fiscally responsible and continue to provide
outstanding recreation opportunities to the public.
Your feedback is important!
Throughout this process, your comments and suggestions are invited, and vital,
to helping ensure that the results of the Recreation Facility Analysis process
meet visitor needs and offer the best recreation opportunities in places important
to people; today and into the future. We look forward to hearing from you.
Please contact us.
* This process was called Recreation Site-Facility Master Planning (RS-FMP).
However, the Forest Service recognized, as a result of the findings of a team
chartered specifically to review the public participation efforts associated
with this analysis process, that the term "master planning" could
imply that this is a decision-making process as opposed to an analytic one.
Therefore, based on a recommendation from that team, the Forest Service decided
to refer to the analysis of recreation facilities more accurately and simply
as Recreation Facility Analysis.
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