Towards estimating the optimum combination of cattle and elk on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest of Arizona

The problems of comparing market and non-market products of a given resource base , and of discovering an optimal level of allocation between such competing resource uses are the focus of this study . An original case study which compares cattle and elk production in the Apache-sitgreaves.  National Forest of Arizona facilitates the research. Elk production is valued using methods of non-market valuation suggested by the U.S. Water Resources Council. The three methods of valuation suggested are them selves reviewed for their applicability. A net social benefit of elk production is found and compared to then e t social value of cattle production. Production possibilities frontiers between cattle and elk in the forest are developed. The production possibilities frontiers are related to the net social values to estimate the range of production which approaches an optimum net social value to society .

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