Publications
An Assessment of the Bureau of Reclamation’s Non-Federal Recreation Management Partners is a report completed in 2005 to assess the current welfare of the Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) non-Federal partners, identify factors that would enable the partnerships to be strengthened, identify factors that signal potential at-risk or turn-back situations, and provide a set of recommendations.
Concession Guidelines were prepared in 2005 to provide comprehensive guidance for planning, developing, managing, operating, and maintaining concessions at Reclamation water projects.
Estimating Future Recreation Demand: A Decision Guide for the Practitioner was completed in 2007 to assist Reclamation and its partners in assessing recreation demand in their routine administration and planning processes and to help decisionmakers make better and more defensible decisions.
Outdoor Recreation Business Plan Guidebook was prepared in 2008 to provide a how-to-guide to facilitate the development of a simple but effective business plan with limited resources. A business plan is a tool to address the economic consequences of various management decisions.
Recreation at Bureau of Reclamation Projects Report to the Commissioner was a report prepared in 2004 by Reclamation that briefly describes the history of recreation at Reclamation projects and highlights recreation authorities and limitations in providing public outdoor recreation at its projects.
Recreation Facility Design Guidelines was prepared in 2002 to assist planners and design professionals in the planning and budget process, reducing design costs, and preparing consistent and compliant designs.
Resource Management Plan Guidebook was prepared in 2003 to outline discretionary guidance on how to prepare Resource Management Plans for Reclamation project areas.
Sign Guidelines revised in 2006 sets forth guidance for planning, developing, and managing signs for outdoor public use areas at Reclamation projects.
Water Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (WROS) Users’ Guidebook released in 2004 outlines a methodology for inventorying, planning, and managing recreation opportunities on, and adjacent to, Reclamation’s water projects. The WROS provides a framework and procedure for making better decisions for conserving a spectrum of high quality and diverse water recreation opportunities across a spectrum of six classifications (i.e., urban, suburban, rural developed, rural natural, semi-primitive, and primitive).
Water Recreation Opportunity Spectrum PowerPoint was developed to provide an overview of the WROS Users’ Guidebook and to provide a convenient tool that water and land resource managers can use for training purposes and for presentations.
Last updated: 12/18/08