Understanding landowner decisions regarding access to private land for conservation research

Landowner and Practitioner Perspectives on Private Land Conservation Programs

Efforts to reverse declines in native grasslands benefit from agricultural policies that encourage private land conservation. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) improved conservation across landscapes but enrollment has declined. We used sequential exploratory mixed methods to compare landowner and conservation practitioners’ perceptions, evaluate perceived ...

Decisions Regarding Private-label Production

Special Note: Chain retailers are very conscious of the need to carry only private-label models/styles that are easy and less expensive to produce so they can sell their private-label shoes at attractively lower prices than name brand athletic footwear. As a consequence of their efforts to order only models/styles that are simpler to produce, production run set-up costs for private-label pairs ...

The Growing Role of Land Trusts and Private Land Conservation

Private Landowner Interest in Market-Based Incentive Programs for Endangered Species Habitat Conservation

More than 75% of endangered species in the United States rely on private lands for habitat. Although this habitat has long been regulated under the Endangered Species Act, there is now broad agreement that economic incentives are also needed for effective protection on private land. Many different mechanisms for incentive programs have been proposed and tested. For example, recovery credit syst...

Conservation in Practice Economics and Land-Use Change in Prioritizing Private Land Conservation

Incentive-based strategies such as conservation easements and short-term management agreements are popular tools for conserving biodiversity on private lands. Billions of dollars are spent by government and private conservation organizations to support land conservation. Although much of conservation biology focuses on reserve design, these methods are often ineffective at optimizing the protec...