Ronald J. Glass

PUBLIC-ATTITUDES ABOUT COYOTES IN NEW-ENGLAND

Abstract A survey of New England residents suggests that achieving an acceptable balance between coyote control and coyote protection is likely to be very difficult. Only 5% of survey respondents felt that coyotes should be eliminated, but when asked if coyotes should be completely protected, 39% agreed, 40% disagreed, and 23% were willing to pay an average of

WILDLIFE RECOVERY - IS BENEFIT-COST-ANALYSIS APPROPRIATE

5.05 per year for coyote protection, while a similar number (19%) were willing to pay an average of

Equity preferences in the allocation of goose hunting opportunities

4.20 per year to control coyotes. These contingent valuation results also indicate that coyotes have existence value. Only about 20% of respondents had even seen a coyote, and younger, urban residents in southern New England who do not hunt were most likely to be willing to pay to protect coyotes.

Subsistence as a component of the mixed economic base in a modernizing community.

Benefit-cost analysis is likely to play an increasingly important role in decision-making about the recovery and protection of endangered wildlife species. However, the contingent valuation survey results presented in this paper suggest that benefit estimates are very sensitive to the method of aggregation and to whether or not species are evaluated separately or together. Moreover, many survey respondents believed that wildlife should not be valued in dollar terms, and a majority of those who were willing to pay for wildlife recovery exhibited behavior which appears inconsistent with economic theory. We therefore conclude that benefit-cost analysis should generally not be used to make decisions about wildlife recovery programs.

Assessing developmental impacts on subsistence fishing: Complications attributable to a mixed economic system

Goose hunting opportunities in the Northeast are increasingly limited, and demand often exceeds the supply of hunting opportunities. Where this is the case, existing opportunities must be allocated in some way—usually either by market pricing, “first-come, first-served” or by lottery. Each of these methods raises questions about equity or fairness. During the 1987 goose season, hunters at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area in Addison, Vermont, were given a mail-back questionnaire to determine their sentiments about the fairness of the existing process, alternative allocation systems, the monetary value of the opportunity and other questions related to the hunt. Both groups of respondents favored the lottery for rationing available permits by a substantial margin. By contrast, less than 7% of the respondents felt it appropriate to allocate goose hunting permits on a “first-come, first-served” basis, and market pricing was rejected by an even larger margin. Assuming permits could be sold, the average price the respondents would be willing to pay for a permit was

Pitfalls and Limitations in the Use of Fishery Valuation Techniques

33·38. While this information provides useful insights, the views of a broader spectrum of the public with respect to the allocation and management of common property resources is needed.

Subsistence Use of Fisheries Resources in Alaska: Implications for Great Lakes Fisheries Management

In this paper, the mixed economic base of a modernizing rural community is examined with emphasis on the interrelationships between personal use of natural resources and other sectors of the economy.

Measuring the Existence Value of Wildlife: What Do CVM Estimates Really Show?

There is no all‐encompassing measure of quality of life that adequately reflects the psychological, sociocultural, environmental, and economic components of subsistence. Even if only the material aspects of quality are considered, impact assessment in rural areas of Alaska is complicated because communities have integrated three‐sector economies. Because both state and federal laws give the highest priority to subsistence users of fishery resources, reductions in fish populations may be manifested in reduced commercial and sport harvests rather than the subsistence take. Impact analysis is complicated because the same individuals may participate in each of these economic sectors. Nevertheless, quantifying material returns such as income and subsistence goods can provide useful insights, even though interpretation of values originating in different contexts are necessarily subjective. Furthermore, these measures are inputs to the quality of life rather than measures of it.

Interpretation and temporal stability of CV bids for wildlife existence: a panel study.

Abstract While considerable effort has been undertaken to develop fishery valuation techniques, there has been limited success in applying the results to management situations. Most of these valuation measures have been economic in nature so they must be interpreted within a broader context of valuation with particular concern for the objectives of public ownership and management. Added to the conceptual shortcomings of many valuation techniques are difficulties in securing consistent and accurate measurements. All of these limitations must be considered when valuation measures are applied to resource management situations.

MEASURING THE EXISTENCE VALUE OF WILDLIFE - REPLY

Abstract Use of fisheries resources for subsistence by rural populations is becoming an increasingly controversial issue in industrialized societies. Alaska is the only state which has enacted a law to provide for subsistence uses of renewable natural resources by both natives and nonnatives. The legal context of subsistence allocation and management is governed by both state and federal laws that currently ascribe subsistence rights only to rural Alaskan residents. These laws also provide priority allocation of fish and wildlife to subsistence users over other uses if harvest reductions are necessary to maintain viable fish and wildlife populations. Subsistence serves a variety of social, economic, and cultural functions in the lifestyles of Alaskan residents, including kinship cohesion, in-kind supplements to income, and maintenance of important ceremonial activities. Great Lakes fisheries managers are intimately familiar with the values and meanings associated with commercial and recreational uses of G...