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National Parks: Good For Business

Mark Schuster/U.S. Department of the Interior

Maybe looking at trees and mountains does not generate a lot of money, but people who do those activities spend plenty. 

The National Park Service is totaling up what people spend when they visit national parks across the country. 

And the parks near us (Crater Lake, Lassen, Oregon Caves, Lava Beds, and Redwood) generate something like $143 Million dollars in economic activity.  Jeffrey Denny is a supervisor at Redwood; he visits with one of the economists who performed the study.  
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.