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<br />... <br />~". <br />i: <br />~-.:I <br />~J <br /> <br />j <br /> <br />make a man day worth at least $2.96 which would increase the <br /> <br />';", <br /> <br />recreation benefits to approximataly $650,000. <br /> <br />Water Resources Council standards state that the recreation <br /> <br />and fish and wildlife benefit is equal to the total value of the <br /> <br />increased quantity consumed where total value is defined as the <br /> <br />willinqness of users to pay for each increment of output from the <br />plen.20 <br /> <br />The Council further states that because there are fewer <br /> <br />alternatives to hunting and fishing and because there is a likeli- <br /> <br />"1<1 <br />, <br />;.~ <br /> <br />hood that higher total costs are generally incurred by those engaged <br /> <br />.;~ <br /> <br />in hunting and fishing compared with those engaged in other types of <br />outdoor recreation, that monetary values might be higher for fish <br />and wildlife benefits than for other types of recreation.2l <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />'..-_1 <br /> <br />In 1971,. Professor Joe Horvath, University of Montana economist, <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />conducted a study of 12,000 households in ten southeastern states. <br /> <br />His interviewers asked sportsmen and non-sportsmen how much they <br /> <br />would be willinq to pay for a day of their sport, how valuable it <br /> <br />was to them to know it was aveilable and how much they would be <br /> <br />,~,~ ~.' <br /> <br />in the following statistics displayed in Table 10. <br /> <br />'}', <br />,'-,;'" <br />:l <br />:":'!: <br />.>1'::,' <br />"~ <br /> <br />willing to "sell" a day of wildlife experience for. His study resulted <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />22 <br />