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Abstract
Public participation is an increasingly important and oftentimes legally required aspect of recreation resource planning and decision making. This paper presents three approaches to expanding public involvement used in the planning for the California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA): (1) an oral history study of recreation use of the CDCA, (2) a survey of organized group use of the CDCA, and (3) four public opinion polls of the desertwide, statewide, and national public. The results of the opinion polls related to the issue of off‐road vehicles are presented. Consideration of pertinence, consistency, specificity, and reliability in evaluating the results are presented and discussed in terms of their documentation in the Bureau of Land Management's California desert planning reports.