Bears Ears National Monument and Outdoor Recreation in San Juan County, Utah

The data and code provided here allow for a focused look at the influence of the creation, and subsequent downsizing, of Bears Ears National Monument on outdoor recreation and industries related to outdoor recreation in San Juan County, Utah. Our analysis is reported full in Smith, Wilkins, and Miller (2021). Reference: Smith, J. W., Wilkins, E. J., & Miller, A. B. (2021). Bears Ears National Monument and outdoor recreation in San Juan County, Utah. Society & Natural Resources, 34(7), 966-979. GUIIDE TO ANALYSIS AND FILES Python flickr_download_benm.py: This code downloads all flickr posts within a bounding box that includes San Juan County, Utah. R Markdown clip_flickr_and_genreate_flickr_PUD_031921.Rmd: This file reads in the flickr data, clips it to a 5km buffer around the county, generates a 5km grid over the study area (county + 5km buffer), and identifies unique photo user days (puds) for each 5km grid cell. spatial_files.zip Zip file containing: san_juan_county.shp: Shapefile for the boundary of San Juan County, Utah. stata_files.zip Zip file containing: data_cleaning_pud.do: Stata do file for reading in the PUD data, converting dates to Stata readable format using datetime, generating project-specific period codes, reading in the monthly_flickr_posts_utah.dta file, and generating summary statistics for the project-specific periods. adding_econ_variables_regressioins.do: Stata do file for generating summary statistics by quarter, dropping duplicate months, and reading in the bls_data.dta file. monthly_flickr_posts_utah.dta: Stata data file with summary statistics of all flickr posts within Utah between January 2004 and December 2019. bls_data.dta: Stata data file with all jobs, wages, payroll, and establishment data for San Juan County, Utah from January 2014 to December 2019. See bls_industry_key.csv for the key to reading the industry variable names. quarterly_flickr_pud_utah_w_econ.dta: Stata data file of quarterly flickr and bls data ready for regression analyses. csv BENM_SJC.csv: CSV file of all Flickr posts within San Juan County, Utah. This is generated through the flickr_download_benm.py script. monthly_flickr_posts_utah.csv: CSV file with summary statistics of all flickr posts within Utah between January 2004 and December 2019.