Estimated Economic Impacts of Tennessee State Parks

The State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation Plan is prepared every five years by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. As part of the 2010 plan, a random dial telephone survey of 1,137 Tennessee residents 18 years of age and older was conducted by the Human Dimensions Research Lab in the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. Expenditures by state park visitors were placed into state and local input/output models developed by the Agri-Industry Modeling & Analysis Group (AIMAG) to evaluate the economic impacts of Tennessee State Parks.