Grouped Feedback for the Future by

Aleks Pitt

aleksandra_pitt — 2022-02-04 20:22:02 UTC

more coffee with colleagues

have visitors bring issues for group brainstorming

2022-02-04 20:22:03 UTC

development of a library of lessons learned and examples of success

2022-02-04 20:22:55 UTC

methods to estimate visitor use (just numbers) at dispersed sites

2022-02-04 20:23:07 UTC

2022-02-04 20:23:08 UTC

Pick a VUM topic from the "eating our lunch" list and workshop as a group to come up with ideas, tools, resources to address

periodic small breakout rooms on topics

2022-02-04 20:23:21 UTC

how to get VUM programs working on non-federal lands/rivers with partners

2022-02-04 20:23:32 UTC

Help new staff find the resources to tackle their issues in areas where there is not a bunch of support.

2022-02-04 20:23:39 UTC

discuss a topic from the eating your lunch entries

2022-02-04 20:23:40 UTC

DAY USE, how to successfully deal with the hordes without draconian permit systems

2022-02-04 20:23:46 UTC

2022-02-04 20:23:54 UTC

Recreation data: what existing accessible sources are others using to guide decisions?

2022-02-04 20:24:00 UTC

Methods to determine visitor capacity

Might be interesting to have a workshop style session with collective problem-solving/brainstorming around specific "case studies" that individuals offer up. Like the whole session would be a deep dive into a particular challenge in a specific place.

2022-02-04 20:24:05 UTC

2022-02-04 20:24:08 UTC

Using the VUM framework for site-specific planning, e.g. campground or day use area

similarities and differences in VUM culture/approach across agencies; how to leverage every agency's strengths to work together to solve problems and how to improve communication to the public/partners/advocates about how to work on projects across agency boundaries

2022-02-04 20:24:17 UTC

Explore case studies for applying the VUM framework to aquatic and marine systems.

2022-02-04 20:24:21 UTC

practice conversations around DEI as work to connect with our diverse visitors and potential visitors

2022-02-04 20:24:24 UTC

methods and tools for estimating visitor use numbers- new ideas and innovative ways to tell a more accurate story!

2022-02-04 20:24:37 UTC

2022-02-04 20:24:39 UTC

How to think about things transboundary (bordering federal lands, town, county)

Using design thinking concepts to understand VUM challenges & generate approaches

2022-02-04 20:24:40 UTC

determining visitor use and visitor capacity

2022-02-04 20:24:43 UTC

Katy

2022-02-04 20:24:44 UTC

Permits and fees in Wilderness context: "It's all the things."

might be nice to not think of products so much as a problem/situation solving resource

2022-02-04 20:24:45 UTC

how to deal with data for visitors who fall into multiple categories or participate in several activities

2022-02-04 20:24:49 UTC

parking & traffic management

2022-02-04 20:25:01 UTC

Templates and Examples

2022-02-04 20:25:01 UTC

Jenn

2022-02-04 20:25:08 UTC

Monitoring and data (including surveys!)

yes where common themes/needs align

2022-02-04 20:25:12 UTC

2022-02-04 20:25:13 UTC

Share examples of visitor use management success through partnerships, collective impact model, etc.

2022-02-04 20:25:21 UTC

Application of the IVUMC framework to developed recreation site planning within GAOA parameters

ways to shift behaviors beyond regulating use

2022-02-04 20:25:44 UTC

sharing of all partnership instruments each agency has and how they work. strategic discussion around how to help each other across agency boundaries to improve VUM for the public (generally, but especially through work with partner organizations)

2022-02-04 20:25:45 UTC

2022-02-04 20:25:53 UTC

Possibly best practices

Mary Ellen: potentially outfitter-guides and developing extent necessary for wilderness

2022-02-04 20:26:09 UTC

Suzanne Cable

2022-02-04 20:26:13 UTC

sharing success stories of new/innovative techniques/tactics that have been tried and worked for various VUM issues

A library

2022-02-04 20:26:21 UTC

2022-02-04 20:26:31 UTC

A VUM Seminar where we take a real life need and apply our combined knowledge to address.

william clark

2022-02-04 20:26:52 UTC

cost-benefit or decision making framework of when to recommend a permit system to management - last resort analsyis

2022-02-04 20:27:05 UTC

Provide training resources and connect members of this group with VUM trainers/resources.

thinking of this group as a place to rap about solutions for issues, make connections with others- potentially send out a contact list with names and positions for future networking opportunities?

2022-02-04 20:27:08 UTC

2022-02-04 20:27:25 UTC

Big list of management tools...that we all seem to be re-creating... I.e. Here are the list of options for human waste...pros/cons/etc....

What everybody already had mentioned, as well as keep an open forum because the environment you all provide makes it very easy to share. I see this as a wonderful arena for brainstorming

2022-02-04 20:27:30 UTC

traffic/parking management

2022-02-04 20:27:35 UTC

2022-02-04 20:27:42 UTC

Yes, case studies and break out groups to brainstorm problem solving

Multi-jurisdiction strategies

2022-02-04 20:27:55 UTC

How do we incorporate VUM in rec. strategies that span multiple different government and broad scale partners?

Understanding empathy and the connection to behavior change in addressing VUM

2022-02-04 20:28:08 UTC

How to manage projects where partners are invested and ready to move out to help us, but we aren't ready as a unit to move out yet.

2022-02-04 20:28:13 UTC

Paul Rau: Addressing dispersed sites, and eventually using Infrastructure Bill to help in implementing

2022-02-04 20:28:54 UTC

2022-02-04 20:29:03 UTC

Tribal and Indigenous engagement case studies.

Suzanne Cable

2022-02-04 20:29:11 UTC

Strategies to support employee morale during challenging field seasons with multiple stressors related to VUM, such as: volume of public contacts; dealing with recurring distressing on-site impacts; unpleasant visitor contacts, etc.

supporting VUM/recreation professionals in working with leadership to set priorities and defend those priorities at the expense of non-priorities (rather than the priorities being "all the things" which often results in overloaded humans who burn out and leave the agency)

2022-02-04 20:29:15 UTC

2022-02-04 20:30:18 UTC

Ways folks are addressing diverse user groups, JEDI

aleks

aleksandra_pitt — 2022-02-04 20:31:26 UTC

Inland snorkeling

all attend the national outdoor recreation conference and spend some time together in a breakout or after-hours gathering of some sort (https://www.recpro.org/national-outdoor-recreation-conference)

2022-02-04 20:31:42 UTC

2022-02-04 20:33:31 UTC

a place to post issues/challenges we are having and "calls for help" that people with something to offer for solutions can respond to

creative/alternative funding/staffing strategies to support VUM and related recreation infrastructure

2022-02-04 20:33:38 UTC

2022-02-04 20:35:00 UTC

interest in learning how to set up diversity outreach events? email Winter, Kimberly -FS

Toby Bloom (from chat)

2022-02-04 20:35:15 UTC

interest in learning how to set up diversity outreach events?

2022-02-04 20:35:21 UTC

A methodology or approach to assess capacity at a macro view (across lands, boundaries and borders) to identify shared management strategies

invite the confluence of states to share info about state offices of outdoor rec and how they and fed VUM professionals can coordinate, collaborate, and support each other

2022-02-04 20:35:47 UTC

Lea Garcia (from chat)

2022-02-04 20:36:25 UTC

am literally working on a traffic counter plan so that would be awesome

yes please - access to case studies, resources, info. A multi-agency go-to website

2022-02-04 20:55:48 UTC

Rachel

2022-02-04 20:56:01 UTC

Making sure we look to and embrace other forms of knowing and data, for example traditional ecological knowledge. https://js.sagamorepub.com/jpra/article/view/10973/8219

I think it may be cool to develop a QR trail, to where visitors get to collect a digital medal or something but at the same time it informs our visitor use data collection needs.

2022-02-04 20:56:44 UTC

Tools to share/collect data with the public

2022-02-04 20:57:16 UTC

What platforms are being used successfully to collect data from the public and share data between federal, state, local, tribes and partners that could be used for monitoring use and integrated in an area rec. strategy spanning multi-jurisdictions?