Community views of fuels management: are national forest local recreation users more supportive?

Signifi cant advances in social science-based wildfi re research have occurred in the past fi ve years. Managers, policy makers, and researchers have worked to better understand the perspectives of homeowners, residents, tourists, and recreationists on fiand fuels management and how to better involve them in the planning process. This research examines how the recreational usage of residents living near the Mark Twain National Forest infl uences levels of support for fuels management. Findings suggest cognitive factors that infl uence fuels support are different across recreation users and nonusers, but support itself was similar.