contents january 2013 volume 48 | number 1 | www.nrpa.org Detail of Beaver Lake Park, Sammamish, Washington, preliminary master plan courtesy City of Sammamish. features COVER STORY 26 Information, Please Research in parks and recreation enters a new era of depth, usefulness-and complexity. Also, meet some of the new wave of parks and recreation researchers (page 30). Andrea Lynn SPECIAL REPORT 33 2013 Parks and Recreation National Database Report The PRORAGIS team analyzes trends shown by three years' worth of data from NRPA's innovative and highly useful benchmarking tool. 2 Parks & Recreation | JANUARY 2013 | WWW.NRPA.ORG