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<br />Waler Management Study: Upper Rio Grande Basin <br /> <br />. Grazing and Logging. The upland areas support logging and grazing <br />activities that may affect both the quantity and the quality of water <br />runoff as well as the character of the instream and riparian resources. <br /> <br />. Development of Riparian and Upland Areas. Nearly all urban <br />development in the Basin occurs in the riparian zone or in adjacent <br />uplands. <br /> <br />. Recreation. The Basin's water and related resources provide many of <br />the most important recreational opportunities in a Basin that is mostly <br />arid or semiarid. <br /> <br />. Aesthetics. Both rural and urban residents value the natural and <br />historical amenities associated with the river. <br /> <br />l <br />r: <br /> <br />. Intrinsic Value. Residents of the Basin, as well as many who live <br />elsewhere, place a value on the environmental and spiritual aspects of <br />the river's water and related resources. <br /> <br />f':; <br /> <br />Some of the competition represented by Figure 2.1 manifests itself through <br />market mechanisms, but much-perhaps most-does not. Market <br />mechanisms are most common where resources are privately owned or where <br />prices can readily be used to govern transactions involving the goods or <br />services derived from the resources. Thus, markets shape the competition <br />for water-related commodities, such as beef, chiles, and alfalfa. Market <br />mechanisms are totally absent, however, where the water-related goods or <br />services, such as the visual aesthetics of natural-appearing riparian areas, <br />lack characteristics that easily lend themselves to transactions and prices. <br />Between these two extremes are situations where markets regulate some, <br />but not all, of the links in the chain of events that connect resources to <br />consumers' consumption of related goods or services. Markets generally <br />apply, for example, to the equipment, food, and travel associated with a <br />recreationist's trip to go fishing, but not to the fishing sites, themselves. <br /> <br />;.::; <br />u <br />t <br /> <br />'\~ <br />,'.' <br />~~ <br /> <br />~~ <br />1,.:( <br /> <br />f\ <br />,::' <br /> <br />Because so many ofthe goods and services derived from water and related <br />resources are not regulated by markets, all groups competing for these <br />resources employ both market and non-market currencies to express their <br />demands. In addition to participating in the direct buying and selling of <br />timber, mineral rights, water rights, river-view property, conservancy areas, <br />and grazing permits, they also exert pressure on the political processes and <br />administrative proceedings in an attempt to influence the allocation of water <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />42 <br /> <br />(fI)G')0 <br />'- ....4\.,,""'-\.1 <br /> <br />t' <br />tt~ <br />