Wildfire effects on hiking and biking demand in New Mexico: a travel cost study.

We use a travel cost model to test the effects of wild and prescribed fire on visitation by hikers and mountain bikers in New Mexico. Our results indicate that net benefits for mountain bikers is $150 per trip and that they take an average of 6.2 trips per year. Hikers take 2.8 trips per year with i...

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Published in:	Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 69; no. 4; pp. 359 - 369
Main Authors:	Hesseln, Hayley, Loomis, John B., González-Cabán, Armando
Format:	Article
Published:	Academic Press Inc. December 2003
Subjects:	Cycling Hiking Forest fires Wildfires New Mexico
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost