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Recreational Forest Values
Outline:
Importance of Recreation and Amenity-based Values
Alternative Economic Values for Forestry
Regional Transitions in Resource Dependency

April 12, 2011
David W. Marcouiller, Ph.D. AICP
University of Wisconsin - Madison/Extension

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Natural resources have long been relied on as a basis for economic activity.
They play a large part in defining regional quality-of-life throughout the Lake States.
Natural resources exist within a set of widely divergent social, economic, and environmental values.
Increasingly, the natural resource base provides the foundation of recreation with impacts on local tourism businesses.
The “amenity” aspects of natural resources are difficult to address because they typically serve as latent (hidden) inputs.
The economic importance of forests

Economic values of forest recreation
Forests are a central component of leisure travel demand
Visitors spend money and contribute to local business activity
Extent of economic impact determined by type of visitor

Source: Visitor Use Report: Chequamegon-Nicolet; USDA Forest Service National
Visitor Use Monitoring program, Data FY 2006.
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Economic values of forest recreation
New money to gateway communities serve as an “export”.
Source: Visitor Use Report: Chequamegon-Nicolet; USDA Forest Service National
Visitor Use Monitoring program, Data FY 2006.
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Economic values of forest recreation
Important to understand forest visitors by type of forest
Overnight visitors to CNNF either camp, stay in local resort, or own a second home (latter is most important).
Source: Visitor Use Report: Chequamegon-Nicolet; USDA Forest Service National Visitor Use Monitoring program, Data FY 2006.
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Forest recreation and the second homeowner
Central component of “Northwoods” economic structure
Ongoing research points to unrecognized importance

Seasonal, Recreational, an/or Occasional Use Housing Units as a
Percentage of Total Housing Units by County (2000 Census).

Other natural resource values: real estate
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What value do we place on non-use:
intact ecosystems and biodiversity?
water quality and soil stability?
wildlife and habitat restoration?
carbon sequestration and storage?
bequest of productive landscapes?
options and existence?
Economists have developed approaches to value non-use ecosystem functions.
How do we capture these values in our management decisions?

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Other forms of forest value:
ecosystem function

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Amenities will play in increasingly important role in determining dominant forest uses.
Impacts on rural communities of amenity migration will be transforming … not just for leisure but increasingly for where we work and where we live.
Forest use is undergoing a dramatic and permanent transition.
How effective are we in balancing forest management as our uses transition?

The future of resource-based communities

Change in forest resource-dependency
Transitions are becoming clearly evident
Amenity-based forest uses are rising
Changing rural household income streams & distributions
Key future dilemmas about forest resources have less to do with trees and more to do with people
Proportion of Total Payroll
(rural forested counties – lower 48 states)
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Management strategies for balance
Manage for use compatibility!
Actively pursue, adopt, and promote forest uses that are complementary and supplemental.
Use public participation processes, stakeholder assistance, and regulation to help balance through ranges of competitive use.
Actively segregate and strongly regulate antagonistic uses.
Develop public policy with an awareness and acceptance of alternative use compatibilities.
Work closely with stakeholders who share your production process … encourage understanding of joint-ness
Impress the importance of your product to those who benefit.
Act to share the costs and conflicts of forest management.
Remember that rural tourism firms benefit from jointly produced forest and water amenities.

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Ongoing initiatives:
Balancing among multiple forest uses
How can regional forest amenities be defined, measured, and categorized?
To what extent are amenities important in explaining regional economic characteristics?
What tradeoffs are needed to account for alternative compatibilities?
How can forest managers improve “balance” among multiple uses as the transitions continue?
How can we improve public policy to better maximize benefits and ameliorate conflicts?

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Parting shots …
Natural amenities and forest recreation are an increasingly essential part of life in the Lake States …
Multiple use management entails balance, which is NOT easy and which is getting increasingly important …
Weighing amenity use with traditional forest uses opens a complex can-of-worms that MUST be dealt with …
Attainment of multiple objectives entails maximizing complex benefits while minimizing and ameliorating incompatible uses …
The presence and use of amenity resources is transforming rural communities throughout the Lake States …
… how should/will contemporary forest management respond?
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For further discussion of these topics:

Dave Marcouiller
Dept of Urban & Regional Planning
University of Wisconsin - Madison
101 Old Music Hall,
Madison, WI 53706
phone: (608) 262-2998
dwmarcou@wisc.edu
Thanks!

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