FSH 1909.17 - ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ANALYSIS HANDBOOK 8/85 WO Sec. 38.4, Exhibit 1 WORKSHEET: Social Effects Matrix Alternative: No action. Outputs and significant practices: Commodity outputs continue at present levels as will TSI and range and habitat improvement projects. Few visible changes from residences, recreation sites, and highways. Developed recreation facilties have slight (+5,000 recreational vehicle days per year) increase in use. C A T E G O R I E S O F S O C I A L E F F E C T S Population Change and Lifestyle, (Work, Leisure, Attitudes, Beliefs, Social Organization** UNITS OF ANALYSIS Land-Use Patterns* Customs, etc.)** and Values** (Cohesion and Institutions) ====================== =============================================================================================================== Significant in-migration Diverse and growing service Towns large enough to Growth and newcomers bring new and growth (3%/yr). Con- economies. Urban/surburban accept the diversity issues and needs. Most handled County Seats version of nearby forests ways of life. of values. Middle easily because of urban diver- (Government and and farms to residences class/white collar sity and sufficient resources. Service Industries) and ranchettes. values dominant. Sources: Wayne & Benton Co. Planners Population stable, many Long established logging Work hard and play Highly cohesive communities, West Side Rural young adults migrate. No and mill communities. hard. Family and with sufficient public services (Forestry and Wood major change in land uses. Some jobs lost to automa- long-standing friend- to handle needs of current Products) tion. Hunting, fishing, & ships important. population. firewood important. Cooperation. Seasonal employment. 2%/yr growth--retirees Old ways of ranching and Conflicts between old Badly divided community. East Side Rural and second homes. Con- woods work--or new leisure rural values & new Newcomers need expanded public (Forestry, Tourism, version of ranch & low lifestyles. Hunting, urban, leisure values. and private services, old- and Ranching) elev. forest to recreation fishing, & firewood impor- People get along by timers resistant. and residential use. tant to all. Visuals "not noticing." Source: County Land important to newcomers. Use Plans Population growing (2%/yr) Small farms, handicrafts, Increasing comfort Frictions and infrastructure Southern Valleys but big in-migration of tourism. Both oldtimers between oldtimers' deficiencies of 1970s now (New Rural Lifestyle, 1970s is over. Zoning has and newcomers strive for rural values and new- disappearing. Increasing Farming, Crafts) greatly slowed conversion self-sufficiency. Firewood comers' "counter cohesion and quality of life. of farms and forests. and clean water very culture." Similarities important. appreciated, differences tolerated. Sources: * Chapter 1, Social and Economic Overview ** Chapters 5 and 6, Social and Economic Overview