ABSTRACT
Recent research in outdoor recreation is reviewed, and it is demonstrated that many of the questions being raised involve psychological relationships between man and his physical environment. Psychologists are needed for joint ventures in the environmental psychology of outdoor recreation. Unfortunately, the demand for environmental psychology has not been as articulate as the military, industrial and aero-space demand for engineering psychology, and the response has been slow. Most of the research in outdoor recreation has been done by non-psychologists. An outline of important problems is presented as part of an appeal for more help from psychology in developing a theoretical and methodological framework for future research.
