EARTHSC 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Geyserite, Igneous Rock, Arctic Grayling
26 Oct 2017
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What are our national parks worth? (asked during the last major federal government shutdown in october of 2013). In 2015, 307 million people visited our national parks. In 2016, 330,971,685 million people visited our national parks. In 2016, park visitors spent an estimated . 4 billion in local gateway regions (areas within 60 miles of a park) while visiting our national parks: the national parks supported an estimated 318,000 jobs in 2016. In 2016, the national parks contributed . 9 billion in economic output to the national economy: during the federal government"s 2013 (only the most recent) budget fight the. National parks were shut down for 16 days. October 2013: this resulted in an estimated million in lost revenue for the national park. dollars in visitor spending for each dollar spent by the state governments. Pre-white exploration native americans hunted and wintered in the area, they called.
