Dr. William E. Hammitt is President-Elect of the Academy of Leisure Sciences for 2005-2006. Dr. Hammitt is Professor, Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, and Forest Resources, Clemson University. His principal research interests are recreation behavior and preferences of visitors to wildland environments, and the environmental psychology of privacy-solitude within wildland recreation. He is senior author of the textbook, Wildland Recreation: Ecology and Management, and has authored or co-authored over 100 research articles. Dr. Hammitt has served as an associate editor for Leisure Sciences and the Journal of Leisure Research. Teaching recreation resource management and graduate research are special interests, resulting in two Senior Fulbright Fellowships being awarded. Dr. Hammitt was at the University of Tennessee for twelve years before going to Clemson University.