Economy of Ecology

A recent report by Headwaters Economics, a Bozeman-based nonprofit, found that Western rural counties with more than 30 percent of their land safeguarded as national parks, federal wilderness, or national forests collectively increased job creation at a rate four times greater than rural counties with no federally protected lands:
 
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