This report details the economic contribution of visitation to South Dakota State Parks. Economic contributions associated with state park visitation are $312.1 million in direct spending. Park visitors’ expenditures cycle…

This document was commissioned by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to serve two purposes. The first purpose is to identify the impacts that natural resource conservation, outdoor recreation, and…

Audubon Arizona commissioned a study of outdoor recreational activity on or along the water to estimate the level of participation in the state and the contributions from these activities to…

In 2020, the Northeastern Tennessee Regional Economic Partnership (NeTREP) commissioned a study to characterize outdoor recreation within the eight-county region it serves. The goal was to quantify, for the region,…

When Europeans arrived in what is now New York, wild turkeys were found state‐wide. By the mid‐1800s, turkeys had been eliminated from the state due to habitat loss and unregulated…

Wyoming is the 10th largest in area and the least populated in the country, which translates into an abundance of huntable land. The original study conducted by Southwick Associates determined…

Business for Water Stewardship has taken the opportunity to both broaden and update an earlier study from 2014 investigating the economic contributions of recreational activity on the Colorado River and…

Each year, millions participate in outdoor recreation activities in Pennsylvania. These activities affect Pennsylvania’s economy in an important way, creating jobs and wages, generating tax revenue, and contributing to the…