Selfies Help Measure Value and Use of Parklands

What's a park worth? Turns out, you can measure the value of outdoor recreation areas on social media. Researchers from the University of Vermont analyzed thousands of geotagged images posted on Flickr and other social media sites between 2007 and 2014, to determine what parks people visited in the northeast state. Is that a selfie taken in Lowell Lake State Park?  A picture of a family of deer in the Jay State Forest? Laura Sonter, who led the study, explained that...

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