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The status of landowner-sportsman relations in piedmont Virginia
… The availability of land for hunting and reasons landowners restrict access to their land were investigated in four counties in piedmont Virginia. Landowners were surveyed with a mailed questionnaire. The typical respondent was a 55 year old male with a high school education, who was raised in the …
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Noble Farmers: The Provincial Landowner in the Russian Cultural Imagination
… novelistic tradition that took the provincial landowner as a central object of representation developed in the course of a series of encounters between prescriptive and creative literatures. In chapter one, the cross-pollination between generically diverse segments of late-eighteenth and …
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Landowner Response to a Rural Appalachian Natural Gas Pipeline Project
… do not adequately reflect the concerns of landowners distributed along the 303-mile path of a rural Appalachian natural gas project, which I identify as a site of energy transmission rather than production. I use social representation theory to elicit factors unrecognized in prior research. …
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Targeting Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowner Groups for Timber Market Entry
… market entry decisions of nonindustrial private landowners. It involves examining reservation prices both for harvesting timber from existing forest land and for afforestation of marginal agricultural and abandoned land. An important conclusion drawn from these models is that financial returns …
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Organisation, landowner and farmer management in the conservation of blanket mires
… management of this habitat, by organisations, landowners and farmers, has not been undertaken. Interview data have been obtained from organisations, landowners and farmers involved with blanket mire management and assessed by interpretational analysis. The research has been carried out both at …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… Studies Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area Chairperson: Dr. Jill Belsky The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership among the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-based watershed organization in the Blackfoot Valley and The …
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Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area
… Studies Towards Community-Owned Forests: Landowner Perspectives on the Blackfoot Community Conservation Area Chairperson: Dr. Jill Belsky The Blackfoot Community Project is a partnership among the Blackfoot Challenge, a landowner-based watershed organization in the Blackfoot Valley and The …
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Losing our lakes: an assessment of the human dimensions of lakeshore landowner shoreland management
… so. I used a case study of Minnesota shoreland landowners with native vegetative buffers for integrating risk and behavioral theory to segment audiences. My findings showed that 22.5% of survey respondents reported having a vegetative buffer on their shoreland and 10% of respondents had removed …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… Deer Lodge Valley have organized to represent landowners in the decision-making process and to implement best management practices on private lands. The majority of landowners in the valley remain outside this effort, however. Using data from 27 original in-depth interviews, I have tried to …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… Deer Lodge Valley have organized to represent landowners in the decision-making process and to implement best management practices on private lands. The majority of landowners in the valley remain outside this effort, however. Using data from 27 original in-depth interviews, I have tried to …
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Assessing private forest landowner decision making in Illinois: applied management solutions for diverse objectives
Private forest landowners own nearly half of U.S. forestlands, providing a number of benefits to the American public: a refuge for biological diversity, watershed values, renewable timber production, carbon storage, recreation, and enjoyment. The private forestland base also faces a number of …
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Economic factors influencing industrial landowner assistance programs on private forest land in the south
… industry firms across the South found 11,215 landowners enrolled in formal industrial landowner assistance programs in 1989. LAPs appeal to landowners with relatively large holdings who normally have financial returns as a part of their objectives. The forest industry has encouraged this group …
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Effects of Shifting Populations and Preferences on Nonindustrial Landowner Behavior: An Example from Virginia
… characteristics, and owner preferences affect landowners' decisions concerning their forestland. Particular emphasis is placed on the effects of absenteeism and land fragmentation on landowner behavior. Such information is important for targeting policies that will successfully maintain …
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Ecosystem Transformation Across a Changing Social Landscape: Landowner Perceptions and Responses to Woody Plant Encroachment
… the United States where the actions of private landowners are integral to sustaining grasslands. Increased diversity in landowners’ motivations for owning land have shifted the social landscape of rural areas necessitating a better understanding of landowners’ perspectives about WPE and their …
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Similar projects, dissimilar reactions: An examination of landowner perceptions of energy infrastructure construction in rural Illinois
… comparatively little is known about rural landowners’ values, experiences, and concerns related to the use of rural lands for energy infrastructure development. In this thesis, I analyze landowner experiences with two major energy infrastructure projects in Illinois to understand and …
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The design and implementation of multifunctional woody polycultures: Landowner preferences and pathways to improve agricultural conservation
… benefits on working lands. Studies show landowners currently lack adequate information to make informed decisions regarding adoption of MWPs and researchers have yet to determine the preferred design of them. This study engaged with 15 rural landowners within the Upper Sangamon River …
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Assessing Landowner Level Costs for Riparian Forest Buffer System Adoption on Farms in Virginia's Chesapeake Bay Watershed
… environmental loss but might greatly reduce landowner costs. Section B describes a decision support system that can provide landowners and policy makers with financial information on the site specific changes in costs that occur as RFBS designs are altered. Section C utilizes the decision …
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