Subject: birding economic impact in Washington???
Date: Jan 28 10:15:09 2004
From: Rob Sandelin - floriferous at msn.com


One thing to consider in those large numbers of birding dollars in our state
is visitors. I had some people who are friends of a friend on a summer day
trip who flew to WA, spent a weeks vacation here chasing birds. As payment
for the trip they took me out to a very nice dinner which set them back a
couple hundred bucks. I don't know what their weeks vacation budget was,
but they were staying in some nice and spendy places. So out of town
tourists might account for a chunk of the Billion plus dollars.


Rob Sandelin
South Snohomish County at the headwaters of Ricci Creek
Sky Valley Environments <http://www.nonprofitpages.com/nica/SVE.htm>
Field skills training for student naturalists
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