Babbling brooks and bottom lines

…“We used to say public lands were for resource development and tourism,” said Ray Rasker executive director of Headwaters Economics, a nonpartisan research group that produced one of the studies. “Now we are saying that resource development and tourism are still there, but now people want to live next to these places. It determines where people locate their businesses, for example.”…

Author:
Chris Mehl

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