PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - William E. Hammitt
AU  - Grary D. McDonald
AU  - H. Ken Cordell
TI  - Characteristics and use behavior of innertube floaters on southern Appalachian streams
DP  - 1983 Mar 01
TA  - Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
PG  - 113--115
VI  - 38
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/38/2/113.short
4100  - http://www.jswconline.org/content/38/2/113.full
AB  - Innertube floating is a rapidly growing recreational activity on southern Appalachian streams. To provide resource managers with information about this emerging group of river recreationists, a survey of user characteristics and use behavior was conducted on three southern Appalachian streams. Results indicate that innertube floaters are teen-agers and highly educated, young adults. Their activity is group-oriented and they do little advanced planning for float trips. Most floaters have little experience with the activity. But 80 percent feel the activity will continue to increase in popularity, and 94 percent plan to return to the sampled rivers for future float trips.