Our Nation's Lands These American Lands: Parks, Wilderness, and the Public Lands D. Zaslowsky T. H. Watkins

Disputed lands

In this paper we consider the classical problem of dividing a land among many agents so that everybody is satisfied with the parcel she receives. In the literature, it is usually assumed that all the agents are endowed with cardinally comparable, additive, and monotone utility functions. In many economic and political situations violations of these assumptions may arise. We show how a family of...

Survey Implications for Public Forest Lands

Public timberlands represent the smallest of major ownership classes in Arkansas; of the State’s 18.38 million ac of timberland, the public owns 3.198 million ac, or 17.4 percent. Of that total, > 85 percent is in Federal ownership (70.8 percent in national forests). State lands account for 12.4 percent, and county and municipal lands, about 2 percent. Compared to other ownerships, public timbe...

BLM's Fort Ord Public Lands Visitor Survey

In order for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA), and better meet the needs of the public; a visitor satisfaction survey was conducted at 23 BLM recreation sites in 11 states during fiscal year 2009 (FY09). The survey was developed to measure each site's performance related to BLM GPRA Goal 3.1 Provide for a quality recreation exp...

Dry Lands and Desertification

Lands, Territories and Resources