Recreation Areas: Survey Tools and Procedures

IMPORTANT: 2022-2023 will be mandatory year to conduct comment card surveys.

• Survey Planning
• Download the Survey Schedule Generator (Do not run this program from the server. To download the Generator, right click on the link and select “Save link target as” to save file to your computer).
• Comment Card Image Files (updated to accommodate OMB Guidelines, please follow instructions to print)
• Data Collection Procedures
• Access to Data Entry
• Access to Project Summary Reports
• FAQ's
• Have Questions or Need Help?
• Print Complete Survey Planning and Data Collection Instructions

  Important Note: After June 30, 2022 you can still enter data collected as part of the 2021-22 survey of day-use and camping recreation areas by accessing the 2021-22 recreation area survey tools in the Procedures Archive and following the links to data entry.

  Survey Schedule Generator Macro
  Some people are having an issue getting the excel spreadsheet on the gateway to work. ACE-IT has provided the following steps to take to enable the macro.

  1. Access the App Portal
  2. Under the frequent apps section, I need to choose the “Enable Excel Marco (Install) app.
  3. Add it to my cart
  4. Click on the cart in the upper right.
  5. Click on view cart to checkout
  6. Under choose target select “Me on Machine …..”
  7. Click on Next
  8. Click on Submit
  9. Click on View Status.

  The app should automatically start the download process. It could take 30-60 minutes to complete it. Once the download is complete, you can use your computers search engine to search for the app "Enable Excel Macro" to ensure the download was successful.

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