{"id":8919,"date":"2012-07-11T11:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=8919"},"modified":"2012-07-11T11:11:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T17:11:47","slug":"report-public-lands-support-15000-jobs-in-idaho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/07\/11\/report-public-lands-support-15000-jobs-in-idaho\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Public Lands Support 15,000 Jobs In Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8928\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/Sawtooth-Mountains.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8928\" title=\"Sawtooth Mountains\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/Sawtooth-Mountains-620x465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/Sawtooth-Mountains-620x465.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/Sawtooth-Mountains-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/07\/Sawtooth-Mountains.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emilie Ritter Saunders \/ StateImpact<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Public lands, recreation, tourism and energy development contributed $1.54 billion to Idaho&#8217;s economy last year.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doi.gov\/americasgreatoutdoors\/loader.cfm?csModule=security\/getfile&amp;pageid=308931\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> out this week from the U.S. Interior Department.\u00a0 The department manages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blm.gov\/id\/st\/en\/info\/about_blm.html\" target=\"_blank\">12 million acres<\/a> of public land in Idaho, or nearly a quarter of the state.\u00a0 The agency also manages energy and mineral development on that public land, administers grants and payments to rural timber producing counties, and oversees mine reclamation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Idaho by the numbers:<em><\/em><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>7,780,345 total recreation visits in 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>15,122 total supported jobs (6,823 recreation, 3,412 energy and mineral) in 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>BLM forage contributed $275 million in economic activity in 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Grants and payments contributed $70 million in economic activity in 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"source\">Source: The Department of the Interior&#8217;s Economic Contributions Report<\/p>\n<p><del><\/del>The Interior Department&#8217;s report finds agency activity contributed $385 billion to the U.S. economy last year.\u00a0 That included more than 2 million jobs in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public lands, recreation, tourism and energy development contributed $1.54 billion to Idaho&#8217;s economy last year. That&#8217;s according to a report out this week from the U.S. Interior Department.\u00a0 The department manages 12 million acres of public land in Idaho, or nearly a quarter of the state.\u00a0 The agency also manages energy and mineral development on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":8928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,12],"tags":[50,171,18],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8919\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}