VALUE OF STATE PARKS IN TEXAS: State Parks bring value to 
their communities and the state ... ahead on Passport to 
Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

A recently completed survey of state parks reveals they 
provide meaningful economic value to Texas and Texans.

24 -- State parks are a good economic value for Texas. Overall, 
the state park system had an estimated increase of 774 million 
in sales to the state economy. That represents value added of 
351 million dollars. Overall, that resulted in an additional 202 
million dollars into the pockets of Texans.

Texas has 95 parks, historic sites and natural areas, with 
91of those open to the public. Kevin Good, with state 
parks, says the survey, headed by Dr. John Crompton of 
Texas A & M University, reveals state parks created 58-
hundred jobs statewide.

15 -- Caprock Canyons, for instance, was estimated to create 14 
jobs; now 14 jobs does not sound like a whole lot until you 
think of the context of Quitaque, Texas, which is a small 
community in the Panhandle. And that type of impact is 
certainly noticeable in a small town.

 

Nearly 4 percent of the Quitaque population earns a living 
working at Caprock Canyons. Good says parks conserve 
habitat and history, provide recreational opportunities, 
and bring money into communities. And the best way to 
support them? 

03 -- The best way for people to support state parks is to go out 
and use them.



How TPW will use the survey information. That's 
tomorrow.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 





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