Featured Publications & Products

• Stern, Mac J.; Blahna, Dale J.; Cerveny, Lee K.; Mortimer, Michael J. 2009. Visions of success and achievement in recreation-related USDA Forest Service NEPA processes.
• Wolf, Kathleen L.; Blahna, Dale J.; Brinkley, Weston; Romolini, Michele. 2013. Environmental stewardship footprint research: linking human agency and ecosystem health in the Puget Sound region.
• Asah, Stanley T.; Blahna, Dale J.; Ryan, Clare M. 2012. Involving forest communities in identifying and constructing ecosystems services: millennium assessment and place specificity.
• Cerveny, Lee K.; Blahna, Dale J.; Stern, Marc J.; Mortimer, Michael J.; Predmore, S. Andrew; Freeman, James. 2011. The use of recreation planning tools in U.S. Forest Service NEPA assessments.
• Asah, Stanley T.; Blahna, Dale J. 2012. Motivational functionalism and urban conservation stewardship: implications for volunteer involvement.
• Asah, Stanley T.; Blahna, Dale J. 2020. Involving stakeholders knowledge in co-designing social valuations of biodiversity and ecosystem services: Implications for decision-making.
• Blahna, Dale J.; Cerveny, Lee K.; Williams, Daniel R.; Kline, Jeffrey D.; Helmer, Matthew ; McCool, Stephen F.; Valenzuela, Francisco . 2020. Chapter 5: Rethinking outdoor recreation to account for the diversity of human experiences and connections to public lands.
• Blahna, Dale J.; Valenzuela, Francisco ; Selin, Steven ; Cerveny, Lee K.; Schlafmann, Mike ; McCool, Stephen F. 2020. Chapter 1: The shifting outdoor recreation paradigm: Time for change.
• Blahna, Dale J.; Kline, Jeffrey D.; Williams, Daniel R.; Rogers, Karla ; Miller, Anna B.; McCool, Stephen F.; Valenzuela, Francisco . 2020. Chapter 12: Integrating social, ecological, and economic factors in sustainable recreation planning and decisionmaking.
• Blahna, Dale J.; Poe, Aaron; Brown, Courtney; Ryan, Clare M.; Gimblett, H. Randy. 2017. Social and environmental sustainability in large-scale coastal zones: Taking an issue-based approach to the implementation of the Prince William Sound sustainable human use framework.

Publications

• Miller, Anna B.; Cerveny, Lee K.; Derrien, Monika M.; Selin, Steven ; Blahna, Dale J. 2020. A research strategy to ignite the science of outdoor recreation on public lands.
• Selin, Steven ; Cerveny, Lee K.; Blahna, Dale J.; Milnor, Adam ; Valenzuela, Francisco ; Schlafmann, Mike . 2020. Chapter 13: Organizational change and operationalizing sustainable recreation lessons learned from two natural resource governance cases.
• Selin, Steven ; Blahna, Dale J.; Cerveny, Lee K. 2020. Chapter 14: How can collaboration contribute to sustainable recreation management.
• Cerveny, Lee K.; Selin, Steven ; Blahna, Dale J.; Meier, Noelle ; Barborak, James R.; McCool, Stephen F. 2020. Chapter 2: Agency capacity for effective outdoor recreation and tourism management.
• Sanchez, Jose J.; Cerveny, Lee K.; Blahna, Dale J.; Valenzuela, Francisco ; Schlafmann, Mike . 2020. Chapter 3: Recreation opportunities and human connections on public lands: Constraints that limit recreation participation.
• Selin, Steven ; Cerveny, Lee K.; Blahna, Dale J.; Miller, Anna B., eds. 2020. Igniting research for outdoor recreation: linking science, policy, and action.
• Derrien, Monika M.; Zuidema, Christopher ; Jovan, Sarah ; Bidwell, Amanda ; Brinkley, Weston ; López, Paulina ; Barnhill, Roseann ; Blahna, Dale J. 2020. Toward environmental justice in civic science: Youth performance and experience measuring air pollution using moss as a bio-indicator in industrial-adjacent neighborhoods.
• Ryan, C. M.; Cerveny, L. K.; Robinson, T. L.; Blahna, D. J. 2018. Implementing the 2012 forest planning rule: Best available scientific information in forest planning assessments.
• Fisher, David M.; Wood, Spencer A.; White, Eric M.; Blahna, Dale J.; Lange, Sarah ; Weinberg, Alex ; Tomco, Michael ; Lia, Emilia . 2018. Recreational use in dispersed public lands measured using social media data and on-site counts.
• Poe, Aaron J.; Brown, Courtney; Blahna, Dale; Ryan, Clare M.; Gimblett, Randy. 2018. Toward sustainable human use management in Prince William Sound: A synthesis of data and management recommendations.
• Sheppard, Jacob C.; Ryan, Clare M.; Blahna, Dale J. 2017. Evaluating ecological monitoring of civic environmental stewardship in the Green-Duwamish watershed, Washington.
• Poe, Aaron J.; Gimblett, Randy; Blahna, Dale. 2017. Learning from the sound: Introducing this place and this volume.
• McLain, R.J.; Poe, Melissa R.; Urgenson, Lauren S.; Blahna, Dale J.; Buttolph, Lita P. 2017. Urban non-timber forest products stewardship practices among foragers in Seattle, Washington (USA).
• Poe, Aaron J.; Gimblett, Randy; Blahna, Dale. 2017. What we've learned from the sound: A broader perspective on sustainable human use of wildlands.
• Ciecko, Lisa; Kimmett, David; Saunders, Jesse; Katz, Rachael; Wolf, Kathleen L.; Bazinet, Oliver; Richardson, Jeffrey; Brinkley, Weston; Blahna, Dale J. 2016. Forest Landscape Assessment Tool (FLAT): rapid assessment for land management.
• Svendsen, Erika S.; Campbell, Lindsay K.; Fisher, Dana R.; Connolly, James J.T.; Johnson, Michelle L.; Sonti, Nancy Falxa; Locke, Dexter H.; Westphal, Lynne M.; Fisher, Cherie LeBlanc; Grove, Morgan; Romolini, Michele; Blahna, Dale J.; Wolf, Kathleen L. 2016. Stewardship mapping and assessment project: a framework for understanding community-based environmental stewardship.
• Oliver, Marie; Deal, Robert; Smith, Nikola; Blahna, Dale; Kline, Jeff. 2016. What people value: an ecosystem services approach to managing public lands.
• Asah, Stanley T.; Lenetine, Miku M.; Blahna, Dale J. 2014. Benefits of urban landscape eco-volunteerism: mixed methods segmentation analysis and implications for volunteer retention.
• Asah, Stanley T.; Guerry, Anne D.; Blahna, Dale J.; Lawler, Joshua J. 2014. Perception, acquisition and use of ecosystem services: human behavior, and ecosystem management and policy implications.
• McLain, Rebecca; Poe, Melissa R.; Biedenweg, Kelly; Cerveny, Lee K.; Besser, Diane; Blahna, Dale J. 2013. Making sense of human ecology mapping: an overview of approaches to integrating socio-spatial data into environmental planning.
• Asah, Stanley T.; Blahna, Dale J. 2013. Practical implications of understanding the influence of motivations on commitment to voluntary urban conservation stewardship.
• Harris, Charles C.; Nielsen, Erik A.; Becker, Dennis R.; Blahna, Dale J.; McLaughlin, William J. 2012. Results of community deliberation about social impacts of ecological restoration: comparing public input of self-selected versus actively engaged community members.
• Smith, Nikola; Deal, Robert; Kline, Jeff; Blahna, Dale; Patterson, Trista; Spies, Thomas A.; Bennett, Karen. 2011. Ecosystem services as a framework for forest stewardship: Deschutes National Forest overview.
• Mortimer, Michael J.; Stern, Marc J.; Malmsheimer, Robert W.; Blahna, Dale J.; Cerveny, Lee K.; Seesholtz, David N. 2011. Environmental and social risks: defensive National Environmental Policy Act in the US Forest Service.
• Cerveny, Lee K.; Blahna, Dale J.; Stern, Marc J.; Mortimer, Michael J.; Freeman, James W. 2011. Forest Service interdisciplinary teams: size, composition, and leader characteristics.
• Freeman, James W.; Stern, Marc J.; Mortimer, Michael; Blahna, Dale J.; Cerveny, Lee K. 2011. Interdisciplinary collaboration within project-level NEPA teams in the US Forest Service.
• Endter-Wada, Joanna; Blahna, Dale J. 2011. Linkages to Public Land Framework: toward embedding humans in ecosystem analyses by using inside-out social assessment..
• Jakus, Paul M.; Keith, John E.; Liu, Lu; Blahna, Dale. 2010. The welfare effects of restricting off-highway vehicle access to public lands.
• Mekbeb, E.T.; Lilieholm, R.J.; Blahna, D.J.; Kruger, L.E., Ph.D. 2009. Resource use, dependence and vulnerability: community-resource linkages on Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
• Alm, Janet E.; Blahna, Dale J.; Chavez, Deborah J. 2008. Management assumptions and program realities: a case study of non-commercial fern gathering.
• Burr, Steven W.; Blahna, Dale J.; Reiter, Douglas K.; Butkus, Michael. 2004. The Utah Trails Initiative: Partnerships, Research, and Action.
• Watson, Alan E.; Christensen, Neal A.; Blahna, Dale J.; Archibald, Kari S. 1998. Comparing manager and visitor perceptions of llama use in wilderness.
• Blahna, Dale J. 1992. Comparing the Preferences of Black, Asian, Hispanic, and White Fishermen at Moraine Hills State Park, Illinois.

Research Highlights

Highlight	Title	Year
PNW-2019-63	Supplementing Recreation Monitoring with Social Media Data Social media data can augment existing recreation monitoring programs to provide finer resolution estimates of recreation use. USDA Forest Servi ...	2019
PNW-2013-009	Washington's Green-Duwamish Watershed joins Urban Waters Federal Partnership The Green-Duwamish Urban Waters Federal Partnership focuses on salmon recovery and environmental justice initiatives, with the added goal of cr ...	2013