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Congestion, carrying capacity, and benefits from forest recreation

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  • Walsh, Richard G.
  • Gilliam, Lynde O.

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The purpose of this paper is to show the effect of congestion on the estimation of benefits from low density and high density forest recreation in the Northern Front Range of Colorado, an area with increasingly crowded recreation resources. Most studies of the benefits from outdoor recreation in the past have dealt with uncongested resources or have assumed that no congestion effects exist. Resulting estimates of benefits per day may be biased when measured at non-optimum levels of use. Comparable measurement of the alternative outputs of the National Forests would be more nearly approached by estimation of the benefits of each at optimum capacity.

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  • Walsh, Richard G. & Gilliam, Lynde O., 1980. "Congestion, carrying capacity, and benefits from forest recreation," WAEA/ WFEA Conference Archive (1929-1995) 291659, Western Agricultural Economics Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:waeaar:291659
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.291659
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