Annual visitation and economic benefits of recreation from 2017-2022 estimated for Forest Service lands within ten initial investment landscapes of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy

This data publication contains vector data (shapefile and geopackage) representing visitation and economic benefits estimated at the fireshed level within the ten initial investment landscapes of the USDA Forest Service Wildfire Crisis Strategy, which are within Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Visitation was estimated using digital mobility data (geolocated social media posts) and established methods for calculating the economic benefit of recreation to forest sites. Data include estimates of annual visitation and economic benefits between 2017 and 2022 for 163 fireshed polygons.Tools and initiatives to prioritize landscapes for restoration and fuels reduction, such as the Wildfire Crisis Strategy, should incorporate human values, including recreation values. Adequately incorporating recreation values into landscape prioritization requires consistent, fine-grain spatial data on recreation uses and values, yet recreation data are typically unavailable at that resolution. These data provide estimates of recreational use and the associated economic benefits of existing recreation by fireshed, which is the spatial resolution that is commonly used in landscape prioritization.

本数据集发布包含矢量数据（包括 shapefile 和 geopackage 格式），这些数据代表美国农业部森林服务野火危机战略中十个初始投资景观范围内的火场（fireshed）层面的访问量和经济效益估算。访问量估算采用数字移动数据（地理位置定位的社交媒体帖子）以及适用于计算森林地点休闲经济效益的既定方法。数据包括 2017 年至 2022 年间对 163 个火场多边形的年度访问量和经济效益的估算。工具和倡议，如野火危机战略，在优先考虑景观恢复和燃料减少时，应纳入人类价值，包括休闲价值。将休闲价值充分纳入景观优先级排序需要一致的、细粒度的休闲用途和价值空间数据，然而，通常在该分辨率下休闲数据不可用。这些数据提供了由火场提供的休闲使用估算及其相关经济效益，而火场是景观优先级排序中常用的空间分辨率。