Economics of Southern Pines With and Without Payments for Environmental Amenities in the US South

During the early 1900s, nearly 37 million hectares of land in Southern United States were under longleaf pine ( Pinus palustris ) relative to current area 1.6 hectares. This study compares economics southern pines (longleaf, loblolly taeda ), and slash elliottii )) facilitate decision making family forest landowners design suitable financial incentives for increasing region. We simulated six growth yield scenarios selected over three site indices Lower Coastal Plain South Georgia. estimated expectation values (LEVs) each scenario cases, i.e., payment products, products net carbon storage, water yield. Our findings show that straw income significantly increases LEV pine. The risk growing is lower than other pines. Existing support through various governmental or additional monetary ecosystem services provided by ecosystems needed increase States, general, Georgia, particular. However, a need exists reevaluate conservation plantations considering expected shorter rotation ages due markets States.