Title:

Annual visitation and economic benefits of recreation from 2017-2022 estimated for Forest Service lands within ten initial investment landscapes of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy

Author(s):

Lehr, Jacob B.; White, Eric M.; Winder, Samantha G.; Shashidhar, Mithali; Wood, Spencer A.

Publication Year:

2024

How to Cite:

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Lehr, Jacob B.; White, Eric M.; Winder, Samantha G.; Shashidhar, Mithali; Wood, Spencer A. 2024. Annual visitation and economic benefits of recreation from 2017-2022 estimated for Forest Service lands within ten initial investment landscapes of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0080

Abstract:

This data publication contains vector data (shapefile and geopackage) representing visitation and economic benefits estimated at the fireshed level within the ten initial investment landscapes of the USDA Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy, which are within Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Visitation was estimated using digital mobility data (geolocated social media posts) and established methods for calculating the economic benefit of recreation to forest sites. Data include estimates of annual visitation and economic benefits between 2017 and 2022 for 163 fireshed polygons.

Keywords:

economy; environment; society; Environment and People; Recreation; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Assessments; Natural Resource Management & Use; Economics; Ecosystem services; Landscape management; digital mobility data; firesheds; economic benefits; Wildfire Crisis Strategy; Arizona; California; Colorado; Idaho; Montana; New Mexico; Oregon; Washington

Related publications:

• Rosenberger, Randall S.; White, Eric M.; Kline, Jeffrey D.; Cvitanovich, Claire. 2017. Recreation economic values for estimating outdoor recreation economic benefits from the National Forest System. General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-957. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 33 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-957
• Wood, Spencer A.; Winder, Samantha G.; Lia, Emilia H.; White, Eric M.; Crowley, Christian S.L.; Milnor, Adam A. 2020. Next-generation visitation models using social media to estimate recreation on public lands. Scientific Reports. 10: 15419. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70829-x https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/62631

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Download count: 7
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