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Valuation of Agriculture's Multi-site Environmental Impacts: An Application to Pheasant Hunting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2016

LeRoy Hansen ,
Peter Feather  and
David Shank
LeRoy Hansen
Affiliation:
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Peter Feather
Affiliation:
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
David Shank
Affiliation:
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Abstract

Pheasant hunting benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) were approximately $80 million/year in 1991 in states where the CRP appears most critical to pheasant populations. To obtain this benefit measure, the demand for pheasant hunting was estimated using a recently developed multi-site demand model, a national survey on recreation, and environmental data processed through a geographic information system (GIS). Thus not only is the resulting evaluation of the CRP's environmental impacts more accurately assessed than through the use of the generalized, supply-demand equilibrium models of previous work, but, more importantly, the environmental benefits of program acreage can be compared across field locations allowing subtle changes in policy to be assessed and the design and operation of a program to be optimized.

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Agricultural and Resource Economics Review , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1999 , pp. 199 - 207
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Copyright © 1999 Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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