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In hedonic valuation studies the policy-relevant environmental quality attribute of interest is often costly to measure, especially under pronounced spatial and temporal variability. However, in many cases this attribute affects home prices and consumer preferences solely through its impact on a readily observable, spatially delineated, and time-invariant feature of the physical landscape. We label such a feature a "translating amenity." We show that under certain conditions changes in the marginal effect of such amenities on home values over time can be used to draw inference on the implicit price of the unobserved environmental quality of interest. We illustrate this approach in the context of a repeat-sales model and the recently intensified outbreak of the Mountain Pine Beetle in the Colorado Front Range. ; Southern Research Station, USDA Forest ServiceUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA)United States Forest Service ; We thank seminar participants at the 2013 Meetings of the W3133 Western Regional Science Project (Coeur d' Alene, ID, Feb. 27-March 2), and the US Airforce Academy, Colorado Springs (March 15, 2013), for insightful and stimulating comments. Funding provided by the Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, is gratefully acknowledged. ; Public domain authored by a U.S. government employee