Author: Robert U. MacePublisher:
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Category : Big game animals
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Oregon's Big Game Resources
Author: Robert U. MacePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game animals
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Oregon Big Game Resource
Author: William Galen BrownPublisher:
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Category : Big game hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Despite the obvious importance of the Oregon big game resource to Oregon citizens, economic data regarding the actual magnitude of net and gross values have been lacking. Thus an attempt has been made in this thesis to supply the missing information by estimating the gross economic value and by formulating a demand model from which the net economic value of the Oregon big game resource can be derived. The gross economic value of the Oregon big game resource, including both the investment in hunting and related equipment and hunting trip expenses, was obtained from two questionnaires mailed to a random sample of Oregon big hunters during the summer and fall of 1968. It was estimated that hunter families averaged about $239 per year for hunting and associated equipment. A total investment by all Oregon hunters of $44.6 million in 1968 was estimated. It was also estimated that hunter families averaged about $118.70 on big game hunting trips during 1968. Total big game hunting trip expenses for all Oregon hunters were estimated to be $18.6 million. Thus, combining investment in hunting and associated equipment with total trip expenses gave a total estimated expenditure of $63.2 million by Oregon big game hunters in 1968. Net economic value (which is defined in this study as the potential value of the resource if the opportunity to hunt big game animals were a marketable commodity) was sensitive to the specification of the demand model employed. In this study, the two most important explanatory variables were average trip expenses and distance to the hunting region. As compared to traditional distance zone estimation procedures, estimation based upon individual observations was much more efficient, and better separated the monetary versus the non monetary costs of distance. Several algebraic forms of the demand equation were fitted for each of the five hunting regions of Oregon. However, best overall results were obtained from the exponential demand function, fitted by logarithmic transformation, but corrected for bias in terms of the real numbers. One measure of net economic value (net revenue to a non discriminating monopolist) gave an estimated value of the Oregon big game resource of about $4 million. However, consumer surplus, which is more generally accepted by economists, gave an estimated net4 economic value of about $11 million for the Oregon big game resource in 1968. The $11 million net economic value is considered to be a conservative estimate since expenditures for hunting and related equipment were not included. It is thought that the estimation of net economic values for each of the five hunting regions makes the study more useful from the viewpoint of big game management and resource allocation in Oregon.
Oregon's Wild Life Resource
Author: Oregon State Planning BoardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Game
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Big Game Habitat Management
Author: United States. Bureau of Land ManagementPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big game animals
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Big Sagebrush
Author: Bruce Leigh WelchPublisher:
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Category : Big sagebrush
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Pioneers traveling along the Oregon Trail from western Nebraska, through Wyoming and southern Idaho and into eastern Oregon, referred to their travel as an 800 mile journey through a sea of sagebrush, mainly big sagebrush ( Artemisia tridentata). Today approximately 50 percent of the sagebrush sea has given way to agriculture, cities and towns, and other human developments. What remains is further fragmented by range management practices, creeping expansion of woodlands, alien weed species, and the historic view that big sagebrush is a worthless plant. Two ideas are promoted in this report: (1) big sagebrush is a nursing mother to a host of organisms that range from microscopic fungi to large mammals, and (2) many range management practices applied to big sagebrush ecosystems are not science based.
Wildlife Abstracts
Author: Proceedings
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Category : Rivers
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Contains the 32 papers presented at the 1977 symposium plus 23 contributed papers, 9 workshop summaries, and a general summary.
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