Headwaters Economics is conducting ongoing research for a series of reports that assess the economic performance of local communities adjacent to national monuments.
The series examines the 17 national monuments in the eleven western continental states that are larger than 10,000 acres and were established in 1982 or later.
The report reviews job and income growth after monument designations and finds that they are universal job creators. That goes for Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante, whose job and income growth far have outpaced the population of Garfield and Wayne counties, and for one New Mexico monument that saw losses reversed after designation.
Click here to view all the reports.
