Laurel Highlands economic impact reports
Economic Impact Reports
A very high priority for virtually all of the partners in the Laurel Highlands Conservation Landscape Initiative has been to support new funding opportunities such as the Renew Growing Greener effort, and to better articulate the economic benefits of conservation, recreation and tourism, in part to make a stronger case to support more funding. For instance, a survey at the first Laurel Highlands Conservation Coalition meeting asked what participants what they see as the top priority for the next meeting, and information on economic benefits ranked 3rd behind only conservation funding and Marcellus Shale issues.
Therefore, we are devoting this web page to posting summaries and links to as many economic-impact and -benefit reports as we can find. Please send information on others to bclemenson@pec-pa.org. Reports here are broken into three categorist linked below:
Economic Impacts of Tourism
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Economic Impacts of Trails
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Economic Benefits of Conservation and Open Space
List others here.