ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL UTAH - IS WILDERNESS RECREATION THE ANSWER

Surveys of wilderness users in four selected wilderness areas and prop osed wilderness areas in Utah indicated that expenditures by these vis itors, while similar to other outdoor recreation participants, are not sufficiently large to significantly influence the local county econom ies. The application of input-output multipliers to these expenditures suggests that wilderness users contribute significantly less than 1% of total sales to most of these counties, and not more than 2.5% in an y county studied.