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Abstract
It has been posited that participation in outdoor recreation activities increases awareness of environmental issues and support for environmental conservation. Studies have shown that different outdoor recreationists may have different environmental orientations. For example, because of their utility orientation toward land, consumptive recreationists may be less likely than non-consumptive recreationists to protect their land from development. Hence, using a United States household survey, this paper examines whether people participating in consumptive outdoor recreation activities differ from those who participate in non-consumptive recreation in their willingness to place their lands into conservation easements. Results indicate people who participate in land-based consumptive recreation are less likely to place their lands in conservation easements than people who participate in land-based non-consumptive recreation.
Highlights
It has been posited that participation in outdoor recreation activities increases awareness of environmental issues, enhances pro-environmental attitudes, and increases likelihood of supporting environmental conservation (Tarrant and Green 1999; Theodori et al 1998)
Topography, and land availability across the United States may lead to variation in outdoor recreation participation (Ghimire et al 2014) and variation in decisions regarding placing lands into conservation easements, we controlled for geographic regions at a broad spatial level, using geographic region dummies
Outdoor recreationists participating in different types of activities may have different environmental orientations and those environmental orientations may vary between clusters of consumptive activities, such as between hunting and fishing
Summary
It has been posited that participation in outdoor recreation activities increases awareness of environmental issues, enhances pro-environmental attitudes, and increases likelihood of supporting environmental conservation (Tarrant and Green 1999; Theodori et al 1998). Outdoor recreationists can interact with natural settings in a variety of ways as they engage in recreation activities. It is reasonable to expect some differences among recreationists in terms of their interactions with and attitudes toward natural settings. Research on environmental behaviors of outdoor recreationists has not adequately explored whether participants who choose different recreation activities have different interests and ways of engaging in environmental protective activities. An example of such an activity is for a person to place their land into a conservation easement. Participating into an easement agreement may give financial benefits to the landowners (e.g., federal tax benefits of qualified donations in the United States)
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