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Studies or Research Relating to Instream Resource Valuation

Fish Valuation

Improving Salmon Passage

Final Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report/Environmental Impact Statement. February 2002, US Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District

• Summary - Final Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement - Summary
• Report - Final Feasibility Report and Environmental Impact Statement
• Appendix 1 - Economics (contains sections on recreational and commercial fisheries)

The following are supporting studies that went into the fisheries sections of the Final Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report/Environmental Impact Statement:

Recreation and Tourism Analysis

• Outdoor Recreation Use and Value on Lower Snake River Reservoirs - Final Draft - June 1999
• Recreation and Passive Use Values from Removing the Dams on the Lower Snake River to Increase Salmon - March 1999
• Willingness-To-Pay and Expenditures by Anglers in the Snake River Basin in Central Idaho - Final Draft - June 1999
• Willingness-To-Pay and Expenditures for General Outdoor Recreation in The Snake River Basin in Central Idaho - Final Draft - June 1999
• Sport Fishery Use and Value on Lower Snake River Reservoirs - May 1999
  • Phase I, Part 1 of 2 - Reservoir Sports Fishery During 1997 -
  • Phase I, Part 2 of 2 - Willingness-to-Pay and Direct Expenditures by Anglers on the Lower Snake River Reservoirs
  • Phase I, Part 1 Summary Report
  • Phase II, Part 1 of 2 - Unimpounded Snake River Sport Fishery During 1997-1998
  • Phase II, Part 2 of 2 - Willingness-to-Pay by Anglers on the Unimpounded Snake River During 1997-1998
  • Phase II Summary

Anadromous Fish Economic (Commercial) Analysis

• Economic Impacts and Values for Changed Anadromous Fish Harvests Due to Lower Snake River Hydrosystem Management Actions and the Economic Impacts and Values for Anadromous Fish Harvests from the Columbia River Basin - October 1999
  • Appendix 2.A, Anadromous Fish Size, Price, and Per Unit Economic Assumptions
  • Appendix 3.A, Snake River Anadromous Fish Run Size and Harvest Forecasts
  • Appendix 4.A, Hatchery Origin and Wild Origin Smolt Production
• Anadromous Fish Economic Analysis - October 1999
• Puget Sound Chinook Harvest Resources Management Plan Final EIS - NOAA Northwest Regional Office, December 2004
• Adding it Up - Washington Communities profit from fish, wildlife recreation - Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
• National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR)  - U.S. Census Bureau Data
• Valuing the Environment: Courts' Struggles with Natural Resource Damages - Dale B. Thompson, Winter 2002
• Use of Survey Data to Estimate Economic Value and Regional Economic Effects of Fishery Improvements, John Loomis, 2006
• Economics of Columbia River Initiative - Final Report to the Washington Department of Ecology and CRI Economics Advisory Committee, January 2004
• Values and Economic Impacts of Salmon and Steelhead Production - Christopher N. Carter, Ph.D. Staff Economist Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife, Revised July 2003
• Economic Contributions of Indian Tribes to the Economy of Washington State - Tiller Research Inc., and Chase Economics, January 1999
• Natural Resource Damage Assessment: Methods and Cases WMRC Reports, July 2004
• Use of Non-market Valuation Methods in the Courtroom: Recent Affirmative Precedents in Natural Resource Damage Assessments - Carol Adaire Jones
• "Valuation and Policy in Alaskan Sport Fisheries", Chapter 13, pp 156-185 in Tony J. Pitcher and Charles Hollingworth, eds. Recreational Fisheries: Ecological, Economic and Social Evaluation Oxford: Blackwell Science (2002). Co-author with Chris Neher
• Valuing Multiple Programs to Improve Fish Populations - April 1999
• Cost of Hatchery Salmon Careens from $14 to $530 per Fish - Jonathan Brinckman November 2002

Valuing Instream Flow

• Allocating Resources in an Uncertain World: Water Management and Endangered Species - Richard T. Woodward and W. Douglass Shaw
• Managing the Columbia River: Instream Flows, Water Withdrawals, and Salmon Survival - National Research Council of the National Academies, March 2004
• Expanding Institutional Arrangements for Acquiring Water for Environmental Purposes: Transactions Evidence for the Western United States. International Journal of Water Resources Development. Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 21-28. - Loomis, J., K. Quattlebaum, T.C. Brown and S.J. Alexander.March 2003.
• Estimating the Public's Values for Instream Flow: Economic Techniques and Dollar Values. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 34, No. 5, 1007-1014. - Loomis, J. 1998.
• Incorporating Respondent Uncertainty When Estimating Willingness to Pay for Protecting Critical Habitat for Threatened and Endangered Fish. Water Resources Research, 34, No. 11, 3149-3155. - Loomis, J. and E. Ekstrand.1998.
• An Economic Approach to Giving "Equal Consideration" to Environmental Values in FERC Hydropower Relicensing. Rivers. 5(2):96-108. 1995.
• Recreation Value of Water to Wetlands in the San Joaquin Valley: Linked Multinomial Logit and Count Data Trip Frequency Models. Water Resources Research 28(10). Loomis, J. and M. Feldman. - Loomis, J. and M. Creel October 1992.
• Economic Benefits of Instream Flow to Fisheries: A Case Study of California's Feather River. Rivers Volume 1(1), - Loomis, J. and J. Cooper.1990.
• Pacific Northwest Project Technical Memorandum: Economic Analysis Methodology Illustration and Review: Estimating the Value of Water for Key Resource Sectors from the Mainstem Columbia River. Darryll Olsen, Ph.D, 0ctober 2003
• "Recreation Benefits of Instream Flow: Application to Montana's Big Hole and Bitterroot Rivers", Water Resources Research Vol. 28, No. 9, pages 2169-2181, September 1992. Coauthor with Chris Neher and Thomas Brown.
• "Testing Part-Whole Valuation Effects in Contingent Valuation of Instream Flow Protection". 31 Water Resources Research (9):2341-2351 (September 1995). Coauthor with Thomas C. Brown.
• "Field Testing Existence Values: Comparison of Hypothetical and Cash Transaction Values" in R. Bruce Rettig, ed., Benefits and Costs in Natural Resource Planning Corvallis: Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Oregon State University (July 1992). Coauthor with David Patterson.
• Economic Value of Instream Flow in Montana's Big Hole and Bitterroot Rivers, Research Paper RM-317, Fort Collins: Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station (September 1994). Coauthor with Thomas C. Brown and Stewart D. Allen.
• “Do Fishermen Lie: Measuring Hypothetical Bias across Response Formats”. Duffield, John W., Chris J. Neher, David A. Patterson, and Patricia A. Champ. 2006Pp 86-114 in Klaus Moeltner, comp. Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Lands. Proceedings from the W1133 Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, February 22-25, 2006. Nineteenth Interim Report. University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Resource Economics.
• Western Regional Research Publication, W-1133, Benefits and Costs of Resource Policies Affecting Public and Private Land, February 2006

Other River/Water Related Economic Documents

• Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts. "Review of Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready" John C. Whitehead,  (editors), EH.Net Economic History Services, Jan 10 2003
• State of California Department of Water Resources - Economic Analysis Guidebook, January 2008
• Pacific Northwest Research Station - Counting All That Matters: Recognizing the Value of Ecosystem Services  Spring 2008
• Economic Values of Freshwater in the United States - Kenneth D. Frederick Discussion Paper 97-03
• Vanderbilt University Law School Law and Economics - The Economic Value of Water Quality - W. Kip Viscusi Working Paper Number 08-02
• Independent Economic Analysis Board - Economics of Water Acquisition Projects - December 2000
• Columbia Basin Water Transactions Board (External Reports)
• Review of Economic Literature and Recommendations for Improving Economic Data and Analysis for Managing Columbia River Spring Chinook - Institute for Natural Resources, Oregon State University December 2005
• Potential Economic Impact of Restored Salmon and Steelhead Fishing in Idaho - Don C. Reading, Ph.D. February 2005
• The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital - Robert Costanza May 1987

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