Table 3.

The results of short-term (1988–present) comparisons of public land use and survey results of nature recreation choices

Recreation choice	U.S. public land			Nature recreation choices
	NPV	SPV	BLM	Camp	mmCamping NP/NF	mmCamping SP/SF	Backpacking	Hike	mmBackpacking Hiking	ATHike
Fishing	0.820	0.829	0.811		0.620	0.611	−0.615		−0.641	−0.862
	<0.0005**	<0.0005**	<0.0005**		0.006**	0.007**	0.033*		0.004**	<0.0005**
Hunting							−0.895			−0.507
							<0.0005**			0.032*
Ducks									0.608
									0.010**
Camping				RC
mmCamping NP/NF	0.529	0.631	0.591		RC					−0.546
	0.024*	0.016*	0.026*							0.019*
mmCamping SP/SF	0.577					RC
	0.012*
Backpacking							RC		0.699	0.678
									0.011*	0.015*
Hiking								RC
mmBackpacking Hiking			−0.565						RC	0.717
			0.035*	0.001**
ATHike	−0.777	−0.767	−0.846							RC
	<0.0005**	0.001**	<0.0005**

Results of short-term comparisons are given above the diagonal formed by redundant comparisons (RC). None of these comparisons were significantly correlated in both raw and year-to-year percentage changes. Blank cells indicate no significant result.

*, significant at the 0.05 level;

**, significant at the 0.01 level.