Study on Measurement of Landscape Benefit of Daqing Mountain Ecological Forests

Travel Cost Method has been one of the most widely applied methods to assess the forest recreation value in recent years both abroad and in China. Based on classification of the landscape elements of Daqingshan ecological forest area and the basic information obtained from questionnaire survey, the landscape benefits of the ecological forest in the studying area was calculated by the modified Individual Travel Cost Method (ITCM) to be RMB 763.83 million yuan.