Journal
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 91, Issue 4, Pages 1012-1020Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2009.12.010
Keywords
Ice climbing; Recreation demand; Count data models; Travel cost model
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- NICHD NIH HHS [T32 HD007543, T32 HD007543-07] Funding Source: Medline
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Recently, the sport of ice climbing has seen a dramatic increase in popularity. This paper uses the travel cost method to estimate the demand for ice climbing in Hyalite Canyon, Montana, one of the premier ice climbing venues in North America. Access to Hyalite and other ice climbing destinations have been put at risk due to liability issues, public land management agendas, and winter road conditions. To this points there has been no analysis on the economic benefits of ice climbing. In addition to the novel outdoor recreation application, this study applies econometric methods designed to deal with excess zeros in the data. Depending upon model specification, per person per trip values are estimated to be in the range of $76 to $135. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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