Conflict in the Great Outdoors
Toward Understanding and Managing for Diverse Sportsmen Preferences

C. Hobson Bryan, Jr. (Author), David Scott (Foreword by)

9780817355234, The University of Alabama Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 October 2008

112 pages, Illustrations
22.3 x 14.9 x 1.2 cm, 0.221 kg

Conflict in the Great Outdoors addresses the different orientations and behaviors within sportsmen categories. A major problem of outdoor recreation management addressed in Hobson Bryan's work is the difficulty in identifying sportsmen subgroups having distinctive preferences and expectations as to the composition of the 'quality' outdoor experience. Land-use managers and planners are faced with the problem of matching resources with more users having increasingly specific motivations. Bryan applies his theory of variations within a leisure activity by addressing what sportsmen do and why they do it in various activities such as mountain climbing, hunting, canoeing, skiing, and backpacking.