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Incorporating Beliefs and Experiences into Choice Experiment Analysis: Implications for Policy Recommendations

We use a choice experiment survey of greater New England residents to understand preferences and WTP to create a new National Park/Recreation Area in Maine. We use the study to analyze how respondents’ beliefs about prior recreational experiences and future outcomes affect policy recommendations from choice experiments. We find that respondents who engage in hunting and snowmobiling are willing to pay significantly more for a park allowing these activities whereas . We also find that willingness to pay for a new National Park in Maine differs based on respondents’ stated beliefs about the status-quo long-term land use. Land managers may find a two-park solution (one allowing the activities and one prohibiting them) would be best; this insight would be missed when neglecting to model conflicting recreational preferences.