College of Forestry

Welcome to the 2025 updated Recreation Use Values Database (RUVD) for North America. What you will find here are links to the database, bibliography, and background information. If you have questions, comments and/or suggestions about the RUVD, would like assistance in using it for benefit transfer, or would like to submit documentation on North American studies not included in the database, please contact Dr. Randall Rosenberger (R.Rosenberger@oregonstate.edu).

We also are interested in how you apply benefit transfer for recreation valuation, so please submit documentation about your applications.

The 2025 version of the RUVD contains 527 documents of economic valuation studies that estimated the use value of recreation activities in the U.S. and Canada from 1958 to 2025, totaling 4,023 estimates in per person per activity day units, adjusted to current 2025 USD.

Suggested Citations:

1. Recreation Use Values Database – Summary document: Rosenberger, Randall S. 2025. Recreation Use Values Database – Summary. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, College of Forestry. [http://recvaluation.forestry.oregonstate.edu/]
2. Recreation Use Value Database: Recreation Use Values Database. 2025. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, College of Forestry. Retrieved [date of access], from http://recvaluation.forestry.oregonstate.edu/.
3. Recreation Use Values Database – Bibliography: Rosenberger, Randall S. 2025. Recreation Use Values Bibliography: 1958-2025. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University, College of Forestry. 41p.