ABSTRACT
This final part of the book is intended to help readers take the economic principles discussed and illustrated in previous chapters and apply them to specific wildlife issues in Alaska. That is, now that readers have: (1) discovered that economics can make a positive contribution to natural resource management in general, and wildlife management in particular, (2) reviewed some relevant economic theory and methods, and (3) considered some applications of those theories and methods to wildlife; how can they go about applying economic theory and methods to issues they may be faced with? The two papers in Part 4 are included to provide some insights toward answering that question. They expand on two group discussions that took place at the Denali workshop mentioned in the Preface. Their content reflects input from all the authors in the previous three parts of this book, as well as several resource managers and biometricians in attendance.
