Applying contingent valuation in the design of fee hunting programs: Pheasant hunting in oregon revisited

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The feasibility of user fees to support a public stocking program for pheasant hunting at the E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area in Western Oregon was initially evaluated by Adams et al. (1989) using the survey‐based contingent valuation (CV) method. Subsequent to the CV survey, an experimental “put and take”; stocking program was conducted at the site. Several fee levels were charged for hunting pheasants, and visitation records kept. Application of the CV method to investigate potential fee hunting at the E. E. Wilson is used as an illustrative case study. A unique opportunity exists to evaluate the performance of the original study and ask how CV may be used in designing and evaluating pricing policies for revenue capture in fee hunting programs.