In the first study of its kind, Colorado State University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Business teamed up to study the Total Economic Value of the National Park Service. Learn more…
Planning Tools

ASPN is a web-based decision tool designed to assist land management planning efforts with: identifying stakeholder groups that may be impacted; prioritizing the social and economic issues that may need to be addressed; and highlighting the range of applicable social and economic methods and analyses available to address these issue. NPS staff and contractors can access ASPN by clicking on 'Request ASPN Account' on the ASPN homepage. Learn more...

The Benefit Transfer Toolkit provides databases of economic value estimates for nonmarket goods and services, including recreational activities and the preservation of threatened and endangered species. The Toolkit also provides average value estimates by geographic region, as well as an interactive calculator for benefit function transfers. Learn more...
Last updated: June 30, 2016