BMAP Damage Economics
In FY 2008, wildlife specialists and cooperators reported that BMAP services prevented impending loss or repair expenditures of an estimated $4.57 million in timber and other agricultural resources, roads and bridges, railroad trestles, dams and ditches, city and county sewer systems and water treatment facilities, landscape plantings, and other resources such as homes, airport runways, and golf courses.
Comparing BMAP expenditures to savings, the estimated cost-benefit ratio was a favorable 1 to 4.06. In other words, for every $1.00 spent, $4.06 in resources was saved.
The cost-benefit ratio does not measure the benefits of educational activities such as training individuals to take care of their own beaver damage problems. State revenue generated from taxes on timber sales are not included in these projected future savings estimates.
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