The Columbia Metropolitan Area is home to over 200 years of history as well as to Lake Murray, the University of South Carolina, Riverbanks Zoo, the South Carolina State government buildings, numerous festivals and recreational opportunities, and Ft. Jackson, the USA’s largest basic training installation. Columbia sprawls scenically across county lines and riverbanks.

Columbia is the capital of South Carolina and was the first city in America named for Christopher Columbus. The city was founded March 26, 1786, as the center of government, education, and commerce in the Palmetto State.

From a distance, Columbia appears to be full of government buildings and financial institutions, but upon closer inspection, one is able to discern her charming personality. Take a leisurely walk along one of the many trails in Sesquicentennial State Park, test your batting skills or ride a go- cart at Frankie’s Fun Park. Make sure to drive around, not through, “Tunnelvison”, the photo-realist mural on the wall of the Federal Land Bank Building at Taylor and Marion Streets which re-creates a tunnel so vivid that it appears to be the real thing.

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New Jersey is the most densely populated state in the nation which is filled with car-clogged shopping malls and is cursed with pungent perfume of oil refineries and chemical companies. No doubt, it also has a unique environment and is graced with refuges like the Delaware River Valley and the Pine Barrens.

Dr. Costanza, Matthew Wilson and Austin Troy along with staff members at New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection carried a study on the environmental assets of various places in New Jersey. Under this, wetlands, forests and other aspects of the environment were studied. The study was financed by two foundations which gave $200,000 in grants to the state.

The cost of providing artificial equivalents of services the natural world provides was also assessed. The cost necessitated by damage to the environment and the price, people would be willing to pay for outdoor recreation was also considered.

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