A report produced through an agreement between the City of Coolidge and the University of Arizona.

Prepared by Richard A. Herbert with contributions from Coolidge Regional Park Interdisciplinary Team.

Magistro darbe tiriamos briedžių žiemos ganyklos Labanoro regioniniame parke. Darbo objektas – Labanoro regioninis parkas- Labanoro girininkija. Darbo tikslas – nustatyti briedžių gausą ir jų žiemos ganyklų būklę Labanoro regioniniame parke. Darbo metodai – R. McCain metodas, statistinė analizė. Darbo rezultatai. Šio darbo tikslas – nustatyti briedžių gausą ir jų žiemos ganyklų būklę Labanoro regioniniame parke. . Tyrimas pasirinktuose bareliuose buvo atliktas R. McCaino metodu, tiriant briedžių ganyklų būklę nevegetaciniu laikotarpiu. Tyrimo juostos ilgis - 14,1 km Briedžių žiemos ganyklų įvertinimas parodė, kad žvėrių poveikis ganykloms priklauso nuo medelių ir ūglių apsaugojimo repelentais. Pažeidimų lygis ganyklose priklausė ir nuo repelentų kokybės, ir nuo augalų apdorojimo repelentais tvarkingumo. Buvo patvirtinta darbo hipotezė, kad nuo repelentų kokybės ir augalų apdorojimo kokybės priklausė kokius augalus briedžiai dažniau rinkosi. Pušies želdiniai buvo žalojami mažiau nei vidutiniškai. / Master‘s Research was based on the assessment of the moose influence in the winter habitats of the Labanoras Regional Park. The object – Labanoras Regional Park. The goal – assessment of the state of winter habitats of moose in Labanoras Regional Park. The research method – R. McCain method and statistics analysis. The goal of this work was to assess of the state of winter habitats of moose in Labanoras Regional Park. I have used R. McCain method assessing the number of moose local population. The method of sample plots was used to assess the state of the wither habitats of moose. The total length of transect is 14,1 km. Research of the state of winter habitats has shown that the moose influence depends on repellent use. The main reason of the strong influence on pine depends not only on repellents use but also on repellent quality. Moose prefer different species of trees including pine. Research has approved this hypothesis. The pine was consumed averagely.

Pažintinis mokomasis turizmas Dieveniškių istoriniame regioniniame parke” Darbo tikslas – įvertinti pažintinio mokomojo turizmo Dieveniškių istoriniame regioniniame parke galimybes, nustatant ir apibūdinant parko vertybes ir lankomus objektus, bei sudaryti pažintinio turizmo schemą. Siekiant pasiekti užsibrėžtą tikslą, darbo metu įgyvendinti šie uždaviniai: pateikta pažintinio mokomojo turizmo samprata, taip pat pateikta Dieveniškių istorinio regioninio parko charakteristika, apibūdintos svarbiausios gamtos ir kultūros paveldo vertybės bei pasiūlyti pažintiniai mokomieji takai ir maršrutai Dieveniškių istoriniame regioniniame parke, paruoštas darbas pritaikytas edukaciniams tikslams. Parko teritorijoje įrengti Gaujos mokomasis takas ir pažintinis takas „Mūsų medžiai“. Darbe papildomai pasiūlyti bei aprašyti dar vienas pėsčiųjų pažintinis takas, dviračių trasa bei automobilių maršrutas. Visi pažintiniai mokomieji turistiniai maršrutai ir trasos bei lankomi objektai pavaizduoti autoriaus sudarytoje Dieveniškių istorinio regioninio parko pažintinio turizmo schemoje. 6 ir 7 klasėms pasiūlyti popamokinės veiklos užsiėmimai, kuriuos rekomenduojama vesti regioninio parko teritorijoje, panaudojant darbo metu sukauptą medžiagą apie parke esančias gamtines vertybes. Dieveniškių istoriniam regioniniam parkui rekomenduojamas pažintinis mokomasis kultūrinis turizmas, nes šiam parkui yra būdingi etnografiniai kaimai su senoviškais pastatais bei didelė kultūros paveldo vertybių... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the possibilities of the cognitive educational tourism in Dieveniškės Historical Regional Park while identifying and describing valuables and objects of interest as well as to develop a plan of educational tourism. In attaining the set target, the paper has included the implementation of the following tasks: presentation of the concept of cognitive educational tourism as well as specification of Dieveniškės Historical Regional Park indicating the major valuable objects of nature and culture and cognitive educational paths and routes in Dieveniškės Historical Regional Park. The paper is pursuing the educational purpose. There have been Gauja educational path and cognitive path “Our trees” equipped in the park. The paper also proposes and describes additional cognitive path for pedestrians and a route for bicycles and motor vehicles. All the informational educational paths and routes are depicted in the informational tourism scheme of Dieveniškės Historical Regional Park developed by the author. Extra-curriculum classes for 6th and 7th grades are suggested to be conducted in the regional park using the accumulated materials on the nature’s valuables located in the park. Cognitive educational tourism is recommended for Dieveniškės Historical Regional Park as the park has comprises specific folklore villages with ancient buildings and multiple valuables of cultural inheritance.

Tytuvėnų ir Panemunių regioninių parkų pagrindinis steigimo dokumentas yra Lietuvos Respublikos Aukščiausiosios Tarybos nutarimas „Dėl regioninių parkų ir draustinių įsteigimo“. Tytuvėnų parkas labiau skirtas urbanistinių architektūrinių kompleksų ir jų ežeruotų pelkėtų apylinkių saugojimui, o Panemunių – Nemuno žemupio kraštovaizdžio ir jo gamtinės ekosistemos, piliakalnių, piliaviečių, dvarų ansamblių su parkais saugojimui, t. y. istorijos saugojimui. Žemės naudojimas ir kitokia veikla regioniniuose parkuose reglamentuojamas vadovaujantis šių parkų nuostatais, taip pat regioninių parkų tvarkymo planais bei regioninių parkų ir jų zonų ribų planais. Šiuose teritorijų planavimo dokumentuose numatytos funkcinio prioriteto zonos: konservacinė, ekologinės apsaugos, rekreacinė, kita (gyvenamoji). Tytuvėnų parkas dar turi ir ūkinio prioriteto zoną. Tytuvėnų ir Panemunių regioniniai parkai turtingi tiek gamtos, tiek kultūros paveldu. Tytuvėnų parko teritorijoje yra daugiau nei 20 lankytinų architektūros paminklų, archeologijos ir gamtos objektų. Istoriniu paveldu ypatingai turtingame Panemunių regioninio parko teritorijoje yra virš 110 kultūros paveldo objektų, tarp jų 48 šiuo metu įrašyti į Kultūros vertybių registrą. Anketinės apklausos metu nustatyta, kad daugiau nei pusė tyrime dalyvavusių respondentų lankosi regioniniuose parkuose ir didžioji dalis nagrinėjamų parkų aplinką, esančią šalia saugomų objektų, vertina labai gerai, yra pakankamai informacijos apie saugomus objektus... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / The key document for the establishment of the Tytuvėnai and Panemunė Regional Parks is the Act of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania "As Concerns the Establishment of Regional Parks and Nature Reserves". The Tytuvėnai Regional Park is created for urban architectural complexes and their marshy surroundings preserve, the Panemunė Regional Park is created for Nemunas River landscape and natural ecosystem, mounds, castles, estates and parks ensembles storage, it means for history preserve. Land use and other activities in Regional Parks is regulated in accordance with the regulations of parks, The Regional Park Management Plans and “The Plan of the Regional Park and its zone boundaries”. The functional priority zones of the Tytuvėnai and Panemunė Regional Parks are as follows: conservation, environmental protection, recreational, other (living). Tytuvėnai Regional Park has and the farming functional priority zone The Parks are rich in both natural and cultural heritage. In the Tytuvėnai Regional Park there are more than 20 architectural monuments, archaeological and natural sites of interest, in the Panemunė Park there are more than 110 objects of cultural heritages, 48 of them are registered in the Cultural heritage register. Questionnaire survey showed that more than half of the respondents visit regional parks and most of the respondents parks in question environment, next to the protected object, appreciate as very good, there is enough information on the stored... [to full text]

A pesquisa tem como tema o estudo de sistemas de espaços livres e a urbanização contemporânea na região de Limeira, integrante da Região Administrativa de Campinas - SP. Buscam-se respostas sejam no âmbito da classificação e da configuração do território, sejam no estabelecimento de projeto de \"parque regional contemporâneo\" ou, como se propôs chamar \"parque agroambiental\", como forma de afirmação de vínculos intermunicipais. O \"parque agroambiental\" não é uma solução simples, mas uma possibilidade de pensar e agir. Pode-se, através dele, ajustar o foco de leitura da realidade local, buscando-se mecanismos mais coerentes para nela atuar. Diferentemente de outras regiões de importantes recursos naturais, como a região metropolitana de São Paulo, o conceito do parque objetiva trabalhar uma área econômica e socialmente semelhante, onde a fauna e a flora são quase inexistentes, visto terem sido substituídas pela urbanização e pelas áreas destinadas à produção agrícola para o mercado global. O desafio aqui proposto é tornar o parque regional contemporâneo objeto de debate para políticas públicas de atendimento às necessidades sociais e ambientais. Podem ser práticas de lazer, esportes e/ou contemplativas, atividades culturais de identidade regional, de produção agrícola ou florestal, de conservação de ecossistemas, por meio das quais se definem diferentes níveis e escalas de intervenção e de acessibilidade aos lugares. Propõe-se o conceito de \"parque agroambiental\" como instrumento de planejamento regional e ambiental. / This research aims the study of open space systems and contemporary urbanization in Limeira and communities that comprise the Administrative County of Campinas, São Paulo. The analysis demands answers both in territory classification and configuration and the project of the contemporary regional park, or so denominated as \"agro environmental park\", with the purpose of strengthening inter municipal bonds. The agro environment park must not be regarded as a simple solution but a thought process and a way of acting worth pursuing. Moreover, it ought to be possible to focus upon the local reality searching for more adjustable and consistent mechanisms to accomplish this enterprise. Because, unlike other important regions provided with natural resources such as the metropolitan region of São Paulo, the agro enviromental park concept aims at interfering in an area that shares economical and social similarities, where fauna and flora are almost inexistent, since they have been replaced by urbanization and agricultural lands serving the global market. The challenge proposed here is to make the contemporary regional park an object of debate for public policies to address social and environmental needs such as: leisure, sports in general, cultural and folkloric activities, farming or forestry, conservation of the ecosystems, through which different levels or scales of intervention and accessibility to places could be defined. The proposal for the agro environmental park is to accomplish an instrument for regional and environmental planning.

The analysis of the cuttings age influence for the economical results in Pagramantis regional park in this thesis is analyzed. Subject of study – the forests of the II – III group in Pagramantis regional park. Purpose of study - evaluate the losing in the II-III group forests of Pagramantis regional park due to the bigger cutting age. Study metods – the metods of data sort and selection, analysis and synthesis, comparison and graphical display were used in this survey. Study results. The rip II – III group forests (accoding to the economic forests cutting age) in Pagramantis regional park seize 1007 ha. Their volume – 277 856 m3. The losing due to the bigger cutting age in these forests is 3,27 mln. Lt. The biggest part of losing devolves for the state forest andit is 3,00 mln. Lt. (91,7 %). In the private forests and it is 0,27 mln. Lt. (8,3 %) . The base part of the losing is sustained in the II forest group ( 3,16 mln. Lt.) and among the tree spices – in the pine and spruce forests.

Magistro darbo pirmoje dalyje išanalizuota saugomų teritorijų samprata ir jų klasifikacija, saugomų teritorijų veiklos finansavimo šaltiniai. Taip pat aptarta Neries regioninio parko esama būklė. Antroje darbo dalyje pristatoma tyrimo metodologija, naudoti tyrimo instrumentai. Trečioje darbo dalyje atliktas ES struktūrinių fondų lėšų panaudojimo Neries regioninio parko turizmo ir poilsio infrastruktūros plėtrai tinkamumo tyrimas. Darbas yra sudarytas iš įvado, trijų pagrindinių dalių, išvadų bei rekomendacijų. Darbo apimtis – 75 puslapiai. Darbe pateikiama 60 paveikslų, 25 lentelės ir 9 priedai. / The first part of Master work analyzes the concept of protected areas and their classification of protected areas financing sources. It also discusses the existing state of the Neris Regional Park. The second part presents the research methodology used to test instruments. The third part examined the EU structural funds of the Neris Regional Park tourism and recreation infrastructure development suitability. The work consists of an introduction, three main parts, conclusions and recommendations. Scope of work -75 pages. The paper contains 60 figures, 25 tables and 7 accessories.

A pesquisa tem como tema o estudo de sistemas de espaços livres e a urbanização contemporânea na região de Limeira, integrante da Região Administrativa de Campinas - SP. Buscam-se respostas sejam no âmbito da classificação e da configuração do território, sejam no estabelecimento de projeto de \"parque regional contemporâneo\" ou, como se propôs chamar \"parque agroambiental\", como forma de afirmação de vínculos intermunicipais. O \"parque agroambiental\" não é uma solução simples, mas uma possibilidade de pensar e agir. Pode-se, através dele, ajustar o foco de leitura da realidade local, buscando-se mecanismos mais coerentes para nela atuar. Diferentemente de outras regiões de importantes recursos naturais, como a região metropolitana de São Paulo, o conceito do parque objetiva trabalhar uma área econômica e socialmente semelhante, onde a fauna e a flora são quase inexistentes, visto terem sido substituídas pela urbanização e pelas áreas destinadas à produção agrícola para o mercado global. O desafio aqui proposto é tornar o parque regional contemporâneo objeto de debate para políticas públicas de atendimento às necessidades sociais e ambientais. Podem ser práticas de lazer, esportes e/ou contemplativas, atividades culturais de identidade regional, de produção agrícola ou florestal, de conservação de ecossistemas, por meio das quais se definem diferentes níveis e escalas de intervenção e de acessibilidade aos lugares. Propõe-se o conceito de \"parque agroambiental\" como instrumento de planejamento regional e ambiental. / This research aims the study of open space systems and contemporary urbanization in Limeira and communities that comprise the Administrative County of Campinas, São Paulo. The analysis demands answers both in territory classification and configuration and the project of the contemporary regional park, or so denominated as \"agro environmental park\", with the purpose of strengthening inter municipal bonds. The agro environment park must not be regarded as a simple solution but a thought process and a way of acting worth pursuing. Moreover, it ought to be possible to focus upon the local reality searching for more adjustable and consistent mechanisms to accomplish this enterprise. Because, unlike other important regions provided with natural resources such as the metropolitan region of São Paulo, the agro enviromental park concept aims at interfering in an area that shares economical and social similarities, where fauna and flora are almost inexistent, since they have been replaced by urbanization and agricultural lands serving the global market. The challenge proposed here is to make the contemporary regional park an object of debate for public policies to address social and environmental needs such as: leisure, sports in general, cultural and folkloric activities, farming or forestry, conservation of the ecosystems, through which different levels or scales of intervention and accessibility to places could be defined. The proposal for the agro environmental park is to accomplish an instrument for regional and environmental planning.

Parks and protected areas are crucial for the health of the biosphere and long-term sustainability of the planet. However challenges these areas face include: there are simply not enough of them, the existing ones are often too small and fragmented, and there is not always public support for them. Regional parks are specific types of protected areas that can help contribute to conservation and sustainability. The effectiveness of protected areas for conservation can be enhanced through a variety of strategies such as “biosphere reserves”. This research looks at stakeholder perceptions regarding potential benefits of the Mount Arrowsmith Massif Regional Park and the importance of the Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve Operating Framework. This study has contributed to the larger Protected Areas and Poverty Reduction (PAPR) research initiative as it discusses the flow of costs and benefits from protected areas and alternate forms of protected area governance.