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<br />00006:1 <br /> <br />Browns Park Refuge will benefit many <br />people. Sportsmen and nature visitors BENEFITS <br />will enjoy wildlife and its habitat. Refuge <br />neighbors will graze their cattle. ~loffat <br />County receives an annual payment. based on the current value of <br />purchased refuge land. for schools and roads. Retail and !;cr\'ice <br />business in adjacent communities will benefit from purchases made <br />by refuge visitors and from expenditures for refuge operation.... and <br />development. <br /> <br />What are the annual potential tangible benefits in dollars? <br /> <br />$24.000 <br />$34,000 <br />$10.000 <br />$30.000 <br /> <br />Value of grazing to refuge neighbors <br />Value from hunters <br />Value from fishermen <br />Value from nature visitors <br /> <br />But the real benefit of Browns Park Refuge cannot be measured <br />in dollars. I t is true a dollar value can be placed on the benefit a <br />hunter, fisherman. or other nature visitor receives from a vi~it. But <br />can you measure in monetary terms the real value of a hunting or <br />fishing trip to this remote, scenic mountain valley'? Can you put a <br />price tag on a relaxing visit to thi~ quality environment where one <br />can "get away from it aU'''! <br /> <br />The value of BrO\'I.'ns Park Refuge is not just a local thing, <br />Ducks, geese, and other migratory birds using the refuge for nesting <br />and resting are "hunted" with gun and fieldglass by people in many <br />other localities from Canada to ~lexico, Even people who may never <br />have the pridlege of visiting the park or enjoying elscwhen..'. the <br />birds it benefits, gain a satisfaction merely knowing that such area~ <br />of wild America still exist. Conservation of wildlife and the habitat <br />it needs is a national concern. <br /> <br />In the years to come the tangible and int..'1ngible value of Browns <br />Park Refuge will increase many fold. The demands of an increasing <br />population will surely alter the American landscape. Tomorrow, few <br />and far between will be remote places like Browns Park Refuge <br />where one can retreat from the tensions of everyday life to hunt, <br />fish, and view wildlife in a natural environment. At ~uch places will <br />ducks, geese, and many other forms of wildlife be preserved for fu- <br />ture generations to enjoy. <br /> <br /> <br />= <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />~- <br /> <br />-u, ~ <br />-~ n <br />--1Y" <br /> <br />.- <br />.;-'- - <br />;~ f~~' ::t;"lN!m <br />I, /i 'lit <br />A \ '~ <br />i} \.,~ I ,.~~.- I <br />,. <br /> <br />r'/LJl1!I <br /> <br />~-I.:'_' <br /> <br />'''''--'- <br />