Methods for assessing the impact of fire on forest recreation

Professor Vaux earned a bachelor's degree in botany (1962) at the University of California, Davis; master's degrees in natural resource administration (1964) and economics (1969), and adoctorate in natural resource economics (1973) at the University of Michigan. Assistant Professor Gardner earned a bach-elor's degree in chemistry (1969) from Whitman College, and master's degree (1975) and doctorate (1979) in resource development at Michigan State University. THOMAS J. MILLS, at the time of this study, was forest economist in charge of the Station's unit studying fire management planning and economics, with headquarters at the Forest Fire Laboratory, Riverside , Calif. He is now leader of the renewable resources economics group of the Forest Service's resources economics research staff, Washington, D.C.He earned a bachelor's degree in forestry (1968). and master's degree (1969) and doctorate (1972) in forest economics, at Michigan State University. Acknowledgments: We thank Robert W. Mutch of the Lolo National Forest for his helpful technical advice, and Stewart Fox and Katherine Stenberg for their able research assistance while they were graduate students in environmental administration, Cover: Recreationists were shown photographs taken of a recreation site before (top) and after (middle and bottom) a wildfire, and asked about their willingness to pay an entrance fee to the site.