Arthur Middleton, Temple Stoellinger, Bryan Leonard, Harshad Karandikar, Haley Doremus, Clair KremenBrief by Emilene Ostlind, Temple Stoellinger, and Arthur Middleton2024-10-182024-10-182020-12-01https://wyoscholar.uwyo.edu/handle/internal/9774https://doi.org/10.15786/wyoscholar/9982In 2018, the Wyoming legislature put forward a proposal to collect a “conservation fee� from visitors to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, suggesting that those who benefit from observing the parks’ abundant wildlife should help shoulder the costs those animals place on the surrounding region. In this study, the authors explore that proposal by assessing different options for collecting a conservation fee from park visitors, examining the legal hurdles to these options, and analyzing their various revenue generating capacities.research brief, conservation, national parks, revenuehttps://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.335