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Who, What, Where & how Around the Parks

BY THE NUMBERS

2,523: The number of Important Bird Areas

(IBAs) in the United States. (BirdLife International
established the IBA program in the 1980s. Since
then, more than 8,000 sites in 178 countries have
been identified as IBAs, with many national and
regional IBA inventories published in 19 languages.)

2,270: The number of IBAs (approximately

90 percent) located on federal, state, or municipal
lands in the United States.

372,888,997: The number of acres
encompassed by U.S. IBAs.

1,100: The percentage rate of return (based
on the $189 million figure) the Commonwealth of
Virginia enjoyed in 2010 on its investment in parks.
(Appropriations in 2010 for state parks were $16.5
million).

$250: The average price per square foot for

condominiums adjacent to Centennial Olympic Park
in Atlanta shortly after the park was completed.

$115:

The average price per square foot of
those condominiums just before Olympic Park was
built.

167,672,913: Approximate total land 25: The percentage of Americans who will be 65
area in acres in the state of Texas.

or older by 2050.

$122.3 billion: The amount

1 and 2: How retirees ranked the

recreationists spent in 2006 on recreation activities
and related expenses (e.g., equipment, licenses, user
fees).

1: The percentage of the Gross Domestic Product
that figure represents.

8,065,558: The number of visitors to

Virginia state parks in 2010 (the most in the history
of the state park system).

$189 million: The

33: The percentage that quality of life in a

community increases the attractiveness of a job to
a " knowledge worker, " according to a 1998 KPMG
survey of 1,200 high-technology workers. (Survey
participants generally defined " quality of life " as a
diverse range of outdoor activities, such as rockclimbing, cycling, and trail hiking.)

5:

The number of U.S. cities generally
considered the best for cycling: Portland,
Seattle, Austin, Denver, and San Francisco.
These cities also lead in numbers of hightechnology workers.

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amount of money the Virginia Association
for Parks estimates those visitors
brought into the state's economy.

importance, respectively, of scenic beauty and
recreational opportunities in choosing their postretirement communities (out of a list of 14 features
in a 1994 study by the Southern Rural Development
Center).

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