RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 An Economic Valuation of South Dakota Wetlands as a Recreation Resource for Resident Hunters
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 33
OP 38
DO 10.3368/lj.5.1.33
VO 5
IS 1
A1 Johnson, Craig W.
A1 Linder, Raymond L.
YR 1986
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/5/1/33.abstract
AB Economic valuation questionnaires were mailed to a one percent random sample of the 1982 licensed resident hunters in South Dakota. Responses to willingness-to-pay (consumers' surplus) questions were used to measure the monetary value of South Dakota wetlands as a recreational resource for resident hunters. The total consumers' surplus value for waterfowl, upland, big game, and predator hunting on wetland habitats in South Dakota during 1982 was estimated to be $34 million. Consumers' surplus estimates were discounted at the social discount rate and converted to values per square hectare of wetland. The average discounted value of $813 per ha of wetland compared favorably with reclaimed wetlands used for agriculture in two of the state's three geographic regions.