Abstract The U.S. Forest Service has traditionally been concerned with the effects of its management on local areas. An export base model has been developed for estimating some of these effects. A new computer program, BENEFIT, incorporating the essentials of the model, enables land-use planners to estimate some of the local economic impacts of alternative plans for the purpose of ranking those alternatives. The program also provides a brief economic profile of the multi-county local area.
Field et al. (Mon,) studied this question.