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Show t Recreation Development Survey Being Conducted in Utah Utah residents will get a chance to express their recreational recrea-tional preferences and possibly possib-ly influence state recreational development. During the next year the Institute of the Study of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, Tour-ism, headquartered at Utah State University, will conduct a resident recreation survey. The project is being conducted for the Utah Outdoor Recreation Recrea-tion Agency, a division within the Utah Department of Natural Resources. "We will mail questionnaires to over 1,200 households each month. We will also contact 250 households per month by telephone. The households have been randomly selected throughout the state. Though not everyone in the state will receive a questionnaire over the 12-month study period, approximately ap-proximately four percent of the households in Utah will be selected," explains Mike Dal-ton, Dal-ton, project leader and mem ber of the institute. The questionnaire will attempt at-tempt to determine what recreation activities Utah residents resi-dents participate in and where they recreate within the state. "The institute has just completed an inventory of recreational facilities in the state so we know what recreation is available and where. From the results of the participation survey, we should be able to determine a demand for recreational facilities facili-ties by Utah residents," Dalton says. "Therefore, we will be able ' to compare the supply of facilities and the demand by residents to find the weaknesses weakness-es in the statewide supply of recreational facilities," he explains. This information will be valuable in obtaining matching funds for recreational development develop-ment under the Land and Water Conservation Act. In order to obtain match V funds, a need must be " for the proposed recreati, facilities. "It is important that ft who receive questionm;! respond by returning ,? f questionnaire. They are J? 7 helping themselves by heg I us, Dalton continues. "The end result could be tkl L funding of new recrea , facilities or funding for UpJ C ing existing facilities to aZ ' resident desires. Ifij f resident's opportunity fa rect input into the system'' I Dalton concludes. ' |
