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Title	Economic value of instream flow in Montana's Big Hole and Bitterroot rivers:
Creator	Duffield, John W.
Contributor	Brown, Thomas C. (Thomas Capnor), 1945- ; <br>Allen, Stewart D. ; <br>Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (Fort Collins, Colo.)
Description	Instream flow is valuable to recreationists who rely on flows for fishing, boating, and other forms of river recreation. Instream flow is also valuable to many members of society, whether they visit the rivers or not, because flows maintain ecosystem stability and associated fish and wildlife habitat. This study estimates the economic value of these recreation and preservation benefits along the Big Hole and the Bitterroot Rivers in Montana. Valuation and participation information was obtained from recreationists who were interviewed along the rivers, and from households that were sampled using mail and phone surveys. Both dichotomous-choice and open-ended contingent valuation questions were used in these surveys to estimate the value of instream flow. In addition, methodological issues of additivity of preservation values and apportionment of total value into use and nonuse categories were investigated. Results indicate substantial economic value for maintaining instream flows above minimum levels, with most of the value attributable to preservation motives.
Publisher	Fort Collins, Colo. (240 W. Prospect Rd., Fort Collins 80526) : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, [1994]
Subject	Rivers -- Recreational use -- Economic aspects -- Montana. ; <br> Streamflow -- Montana -- Big Hole River. ; <br> Streamflow -- Montana -- Bitterroot River.
Relation	[IsPartOf]Research paper RM ; 317
Source	A 13.78:RM-317
Date Original	1994-09-01
Date Digital	2007;
Type	text
Format	application/pdf
Resource Identifier	mtg002251
Contributing Institution	The University of Montana
Language	en
Digitization Specifications	Scanned by Lacey Gibbons using an OpticBook 3600 scanner at 400 dpi, 8 bit gray scale. Master images stored as TIFF and derivatives presented as PDF. Abbey FineReader 8.0 used for optical character recognition.

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