In order to understand the preferences of current and future visitors to public lands, the SNAP Recreation Team completed two social science surveys: 

1. National Visitor Use Monitoring: Survey of Recreation Patterns and Characteristics and
   
2. Survey of Hispanic and Latino Public Lands Use in Clark County.
   

Funded by the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act, the survey results will guide future recreation and outreach plans.

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National Visitor Use Monitoring: Survey of Recreation Patterns and Characteristics

The public lands that comprise SNAP offer a variety of recreation opportunities on lands managed for differing federal agency objectives. However, the proximity of these lands to each other and the shared potential base of local recreation users and tourists made it useful to consider SNAP recreation resources collectively for this recreation use survey. Using the USDA FS National Visitor Use Monitoring (NVUM) protocol, 2,896 visitor-completed surveys were obtained from 2005-2008. The resulting data provided comprehensive statistics on recreation use, visit characteristics, visitor spending, and the satisfaction of recreation users with recreation opportunities and resource conditions that will be used in future recreation planning.

Executive Summary
SNAP Interagency Report
Bureau of Land Management Report
Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex, US Fish and Wildlife Service Report
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, National Park Service Report*
Spring Mountains National Recreation Area (Mount Charleston), Forest Service Report  

*The Lake Mead National Recreation Area 2011 Visitor Survey Card Data Report was completed using National Park Service survey protocol.

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Survey of Hispanic and Latino Public Lands Use in Clark County

While the NVUM survey provided data for existing users, SNAP identified a need to fulfill another information gap: recreation preferences of non-users of public lands and the growing Hispanic and Latino community. This study was conducted to better understand the reasons behind use and non-use of federal lands and to gather information that can be used to improve the perception of natural resource recreation and use by the Hispanic population of Clark County. Further, the study will provide information to the Southern Nevada Agency Partnership in order to develop culturally appropriate outreach plans.

Hispanic Recreation Survey Report
Appendix A: Open Ended Responses
Appendix B: Survey Instrument
Appendix C: Data Frequency Tables

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