Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: Impact on the Local Community

Howard A. Osborn

No 338170, Miscellaneous Publications from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Projection of visitor spending to the year 2000 provides the input for an input-output derivation of income effects of a National Recreation Area (NRA) on three West Virginia counties. Visitor spending is computed from expenditure budgets and estimates of growth by visitor types resulting from expected resource development. Independent subjective estimates of the probability of construction and the expected effect of several reservoirs, highways, and ski resorts projected for the immediate and adjacent area form the basis for projecting visitation. Population growth is included in the projections but possible growth in per capita income is not. Importance of water reservoirs as a recreation base is shown. Local visitors are expected to make greatest use of the area, although overnight campers will spend most total time in the NRA. Use of commercial motel and restaurant facilities would contribute most to income.

Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Labor and Human Capital; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 148
Date: 1976-05
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.338170

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