All 50 states offer preferential property tax programs that lower the taxes paid on enrolled agricultural and/or forest lands. While agroforestry is a land-use combines elements of both agriculture and forestry, eligibility criteria other rules regulations may prevent landowners from enrolling practices in one or more forestry programs. This pilot-scale study developed conceptual methodological...

Agroforestry, the use of trees at interface between agricultural and forestry systems, is a key component multifunctional European landscape, where it provides whole range ecosystem services. Its main potential lies in provision services including increasing economic yield agriculture providing anti-erosion measures. The objective this research to assess perception woody plants growing agrofore...

The negative effects of climate change on natural resources represent one the biggest challenges forestry sector is facing. increase in frequency and intensity occurrence disasters (snow-falls, icefalls, windbreaks, etc.), as well economic, ecological social consequences, significantly affect performance all activities within sector. This paper aims to study relationship between financial eleme...

Most forest growth models are not suitable for the highly fragmented, linear (or linearly shaped) forests in the Great Plains agroecosJrstems (e.g., windbreaks, riparian forest buffers), where such forests are a minor but ecologically important component of the land mosaics. This study used SEEI)SCAPE, a recently modified gap model designed for cultivated land mosaics in the Creat Plains, to si...