Download or read book Economic Impacts of Climate Affected Snow Depths on Wyoming s Snowmobile Recreation written by Kelsey Marie Lensegrav and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snowmobiling is a significant outdoor recreation activity in the Northern Rocky Mountain Region, contributing to winter tourism revenue in Wyoming and neighboring states. However, climate change poses a threat to snow levels in the region, potentially impacting the snowmobiling industry and rural communities that rely on it. Despite its economic importance, there is a lack of research on how climate change may affect snowmobiling and its economic impacts. This study aims to analyze the effect of climate-affected snow conditions, specifically snow depth, on snowmobile recreation in Wyoming and estimate the resulting economic impacts across recreation sites. The research combines climate forecasts with a recreation demand model and input-output analysis. Survey data from resident and nonresident snowmobilers are used to develop a recreation demand model, which estimates the probability of individuals visiting specific sites based on snow depth and trail attributes. Using downscaled climate predictions and historical snow data, the study estimates changes in snow depth at snowmobile trail areas in Wyoming. The results show snow depths are expected to decrease with lower elevation and potentially increase with higher elevation sites. Snow depth positively influences site choice, indicating potential changes in snowmobilers' travel patterns. The study's input-output results reflect the geographical redistribution and overall changes in snowmobilers' expenditures, labor income, and jobs due to climate change in Wyoming. These findings have implications for recreation-dependent rural communities, as they can use the information to plan for future economic growth and diversification in the face of climate change's potential impacts on snowmobiling.
Download or read book Environmental Issues Today 2 volumes written by Robert J. Duffy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set provides an authoritative overview of the major environmental issues of the 21st century, with a special focus on current challenges, trends, and policy choices. This set provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and focused resource for understanding the nature and scope of environmental challenges facing the United States and the world in the 21st century, as well as options for meeting those challenges. Volume One covers environmental trends and challenges within the United States, while Volume Two illuminates environmental issues and choices around the world. Issues covered in both volumes include vital topics such as climate change, air and water pollution, natural resource and species protection, and agricultural/industrial impacts on the environment and public health. For all topics, the authors—scholars and experts hailing from a wide range of environmental and policy fields—detail a range of political, social, and economic options for the future and explain why the issue in question is important for society and people as well as the natural world.
Download or read book Outdoor Recreation in Wyoming Phillips C and Pearson J D Snowmobiling activities in Wyoming written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impacts of Snow Compaction from Human Recreation on the Biota of Snowy Regions written by John P. Whiteman and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many regions of the world, snow cover is an important ecological factor. Animals traveling on the snow surface often sink into snow; this increases their energetic cost of travel, and ultimately affects their populations and communities. Snow cover creates a subnivean (below-snow) environment that protects many small animals and plants that would otherwise perish. Snow sports (e.g. snowmobiling, cross-country skiing) are increasingly popular, and they compact snow. In a chapter formatted for the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, I review previous studies indicating that compaction reduces growth, increases mortality, and alters community composition of subnivean plants, and that compaction decreases the density of small mammals in the subnivean environment. The mechanisms behind some of these negative effects are unclear. Compaction also creates trails of high-density snow that can facilitate the movement of animals traveling on the snow surface. Travel on compacted trails has not been compared between species that have different degrees of adaptation to snow. In a chapter formatted for the peer-reviewed journal Biological Conservation, I examined movement of animal species with different footloads (body mass foot surface area -1) on transects, before and after snow on transects was compacted. I also compared compacted trails created by different snow sports. Higher animal footloads were associated with animals following compacted transects more often, and for greater distances. Animal use of compacted trails could affect the distributions and interactions of species. Trails created by snowmobiling were wider than those created by snowshoeing and cross-country skiing, but all 3 snow sports caused similar increases in snow density. Where management is necessary to mitigate negative effects of snow compaction, options include limiting the temporal and spatial patterns of snow sports activity.
Download or read book Economic Impacts of Gas and Oil and Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States written by U.S. Global Change Research Program and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-24 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summarizes the science of climate change and impacts on the United States, for the public and policymakers.
Download or read book Economic Benefits from ORV Recreation in Wyoming written by Robert A. Jenson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pressure from private property owners, special-interest groups, and non-motorized recreational groups have closed public land in Wyoming to off-road vehicle (ORV) use. Current Wyoming trends indicate increased future ORV recreation, suggesting increased concerns from this activity. The literature suggests that ORV riders in different states receive significant benefits from this activity. The literature ranges in benefits estimates from $296,000 annually for a trail system in Colorado, to $1,000 per trip in North Carolina. A report for Wyoming indicates that ORV recreation generated an estimated $244 million in ORV related economic impacts in 2011-2012. There is a paucity of research regarding the economic welfare associated with this activity in Wyoming. We utilize data from a recent ORV survey and Geographic Information Systems coverages to estimate a recreation demand model for ORV recreation in Wyoming. We estimate a multinomial logit random utility model, and we then estimate compensating variation (CV) estimates for ORV users from the model. Our analysis indicates population CV estimates were up to $7.18 million on United States Forest Service sites, $6.3 million non-USFS sites, and $13.25 million statewide annually. We believe such information should add to the current literature as well as provide useful information for potential policy prescriptions associated with ORV recreation in Wyoming.
Download or read book Winter Use Plan Environmental Assessment written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridger Teton National Forest N F Caribou Targhee National Forest N F High Mountains Heli Skiing Teton and Lincoln Counties Wyoming Teton and Bonneville Counties Idaho written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grass Creek Resource s Management Plan RMP Big Horn County Washakie County Hot Springs County Park County written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Snow Ecology written by H. G. Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidisciplinary 2001 overview of life in, on and under snow for anyone interested in the cryosphere.
Download or read book The Avalanche Handbook written by David McClung and published by The Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technical yet accessible, The Avalanche Handbook, 3rd Edition, covers the formation, character, effects, and control of avalanches; rescue techniques; and research on understanding and surviving avalanches. Illustrated with nearly 200 updated illustrations, photos and examples, the revised edition offers exhaustive information on contributing weather and climate factors, snowpack analysis, the newest transceiver search techniques, and preventative and protective measures, including avalanche zoning and control. It contains new information on the unique characteristics of alpine snow, snow slab instability, terrain variables, skier triggering of avalanches, and the nature of avalanche motion. Plus brand-new chapters on the elements of backcountry avalanche forecasting and the decision-making process.
Download or read book Thrillcraft written by George Wuerthner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation exposes the lasting damage done to our land, water, and air from the growing plague of jet skis, quads, dirt bikes, dune buggies, snowmobiles, and other motorized recreational craft that are penetrating the last bastions of wild America. The increase in thrillcraft use is responsible for wildlife habitat fragmentation, disturbance of sensitive wildlife, soil erosion, spread of invasive weeds, loss of silence, as well as water and air pollution. With more than one hundred shocking color photographs, Thrillcraft vividly documents the destruction caused by these machines on American public lands. Essays by activists, policy experts, scientists, and others support the photographs, explain the harm done by these machines, and critique the cultural foundation of this phenomenon. Thrillcraft bears witness to the mindless destruction of our collective natural heritage and offers a vision for a future when the howl of the wind or wolf can again be heard more often than the howl of a machine.
Download or read book Knowing Yellowstone written by Jerry Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to Yellowstone National Park are drawn to the spectacular scenery, unique thermal features, and the large numbers of wild animals easily observed in their natural habitat. The thoughtful visitor to the park cannot help but be captivated by the unparalleled breadth of scientific knowledge needed to understand the intricate interrelationships that make up the yellowstone landscape. Knowing Yellowstone explores how scientists discover what they know about America's first national park and the surrounding lands. The chapter authors are scientists who represent the best of their fields of study. The science they describe is leading the way to our understanding of complex ecosystems worldwide.
Download or read book Motorized Obsessions written by Paul R. Josephson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-09-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From dirt bikes and jet skis to weed wackers and snowblowers, machines powered by small gas engines have become a permanent - and loud - fixture in American culture. But fifty years of high-speed fun and pristine lawns have not come without cost. technology it powers, Paul R. Josephson explores the political, environmental, and public health issues surrounding one of America's most dangerous pastimes. Each chapter tells the story of an ecosystem within the United States and the devices that wreak havoc on it - personal watercraft (PWCs) on inland lakes and rivers; all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) in deserts and forests; lawn mowers and leaf blowers in suburbia. In addition to environmental impacts, Josephson discusses the development and promotion of these technologies, the legal and regulatory efforts made to improve their safety and environmental soundness, and the role of owners' clubs in encouraging responsible operation. research, nongovernmental organizations, and manufacturers, Josephson's compelling history leads to one irrefutable conclusion: these machines cannot be operated without loss of life and loss of habitat.
Download or read book Technical Aspects of Snow Avalanche Risk Management written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wildlife and Recreationists written by Richard L. Knight and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wildlife and Recreationists defines and clarifies the issues surrounding the conflict between outdoor recreation and the health and well-being of wildlife and ecosystems. Contributors to the volume consider both direct and indirect effects of widlife-recreationist interactions, including: wildlife responses to disturbance, and the origins of these responses how specific recreational activities affect diverse types of wildlife the human dimensions of managing recreationists the economic importance of outdoor recreation how wildlife and recreationists might be able to coexist The book is a useful synthesis of what is known concerning wildlife and recreation. More important, it addresses both research needs and management options to minimize conflicts.
