- Economics of Land Use, Wilderness Designation, and Resource Regulation in the American West: Three of the most important resource issues in the American west concern (i) land use over time, in the face of potential irreversibilities and new information acquisition by land managers, (ii) mechanisms for appropriately addressing questions of wilderness designation and habitat preservation, and (iii) the design of apposite resource management institutions.
Recreation Enhancement Act Information: The previous Recreation Fee Demonstration program was enacted by Congress in 1996. In December 2004, Congress enacted the Recreation Enhancement Act, which gave federal agencies a long-term, multi-agency recreation fee program. Recreation fees provide crucial resources that allow the federal agencies to respond to increased demand on federal lands. The goal is to provide visitors with a quality recreation experience through enhanced facilities and services.
- Recreation Fees: Management Improvements Can Help the Demonstration Program Enhance Visitor Services: The 2001 U.S. General Accounting Office report to the Senate subcommittee on National Parks, Historic Preservation and Recreation. It analyzes how well the fee program is meeting the intended goals four years after it was instituted in 1996.
The Economic Importance of Federal Grazing to the Economies of the West: Thomas Michael Power. Points out that ranching, despite its colorful association with the "old West," is not a dominant part of the contemporary Western economies, and due to this small economic significance, impacts of grazing must be compared to the environmental impact of the current level of public land grazing.
- Wilderness Economics Must Look Through the Windshield, Not the Rearview Mirror: Critiques the arguments that a wilderness designation will inhibit economic expansion of an area and that it benefits a small number of primitive backcountry users in that they conflict with empirical, economic evidence.