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1970

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The Economic Value Of Natural Areas For Recreational Hunting, Kenneth Gene Holbrook Jan 1970

The Economic Value Of Natural Areas For Recreational Hunting, Kenneth Gene Holbrook

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The pressures of population growth, urbanization, and improved transportation are diminishing the availability of quality naturalistic sites for recreation while at the same time producing greater demands for their use. One cause contributing to the reduction in acreage in naturalistic areas is the construction of reservoirs. The recreational hunting value of the naturalistic area to be inundated should be considered as a negative consequence in the economic evaluation of a proposed reservoir site.

This study utilized hunting data collected by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife, from the 120 Kentucky counties to estimate the economic, value of the average …