Author : British Columbia. Economics and Trade Branch
Publisher : University of British Columbia Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Economic Benefits of Managing Forestry and Tourism at Nimmo Bay by : British Columbia. Economics and Trade Branch
Download or read book Economic Benefits of Managing Forestry and Tourism at Nimmo Bay written by British Columbia. Economics and Trade Branch and published by University of British Columbia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was undertaken to address the challenge of optimizing the overall benefits of forest landscapes to both the forestry & tourism industries in British Columbia. Nimmo Bay Lodge was chosen for the study because it had a defined viewshed with merchantable wood, planned timber harvesting activities in the viewshed, and clients willing to be surveyed. A visual perception survey was administered to 96 lodge patrons to determine visitor response to various visual quality scenes & silvicultural systems such as partial retention and clear-cutting. The survey sought to determine the proportion of clients who would return to the lodge. Next, the viewshed for the lodge was defined to establish a land base for benefit analysis purposes, and an annual timber flow was derived for the area. The benefit analysis looked at several scenarios ranging from no harvesting to maximum harvest in four economic areas: resource value, business revenue, government revenue, and employment & income. Includes glossary.