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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"non-industrial private forest"”.
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Adoption of sustainable forestry practices by Non-Industrial Private Forest owners in Virginia
The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has been promoted in the past few decades all over the world. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners play an important role in that aspect in the U.S. because of their number (about 16 millions), the size of forest land under their control …
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Silvicultural Methods for Improving Hardwood Management on Non-Industrial Private Forest land in Virginia
… management and provide useful information for non-industrial private forest (NIPF) landowners. It is so important to target NIPF landowners because the 350 million acres of timberland they own will play a large part in the future of the United States timber supply (Haynes 2002).
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Assessing West Virginia NIPF owner characteristics and preferred assistance topics
Four hundred and fifty-one Non-Industrial-Private-Forest (NIPF) owners (49% response rate) in West Virginia responded to a survey of their forestry assistance needs. Most of the socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents, their reasons for owning the property, the types of activities they …
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Television, mass media, and environmental cultivation: a study of private forest landowners in Delaware
The goal of this study was to survey private forest landowners in Delaware to extend previous studies into “environmental cultivation,” a research perspective that explores the theoretical link between television exposure and potential differences in the ecological worldviews of lighter versus …
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Stumpage price expectations: an empirical analysis of nonindustrial private landowners in the Mid-Atlantic states
Numerous empirical studies outside of forestry have analyzed the role of price expectations in different decision processes. Empirical studies using price expectations in forestry research is a relatively new field of endeavor. Past studies have typically ignored or given cursory treatment to the …
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Collaborative Interface Modeling of Fuel Wood Harvesting Practices: Residential NIPF Landowners of the Jefferson National Forest Wildland/Urban Interface, Montgomery County, Virginia
Residential non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners within the Wildland/Urban interface are an increasingly important forest owner demographic. An increase in rural residential land use is fragmenting historically large contiguous forestlands. Consequently resource management has become …
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Assessing and evaluating the Forest Stewardship Program: promoting and conducting sound wildlife management
… was sent to all U.S. state and territorial Forest Stewardship Program (FSP) Coordinators in 1993 (response rate 90.2%). Despite differences in FSP design and implementation among states, the percentage of available non-industrial private forest (NIPF) acreage enrolled in the FSP (x = 3.4%) …
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Cost share payment and willingness to participate in Virginia's Pine Bark Beetle Prevention Program
Forest management practices which reduce southern pine beetle (SPB) risk benefit not only the landowners who perform them, but all those who draw benefits from southern pine forests in Virginia, especially other forest owners within the same region. One such management practice is pre-commercial …
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Factors Associated with Ohio Tree Farmers'; Forest Management and Outreach Needs
Seventy-three percent of Ohio forest land is owned by non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFs). These owners play a large role in what products are offered in the market place as well as environmental quality and ecosystem services. Ohio certified tree farmers, a subpopulation of NIPFs, …
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Impacts of Land and Ownership Characteristics on the Stumpage Prices for Virginia's Nonindustrial Forests
The character of Virginia's nonindustrial private forests is changing primarily for two reasons. First, many large, continuous forested tracts are being sub-divided, into with the resulting smaller tracts purchased for amenity values and recreation instead of as a timber investment (Hodge 1993). …
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A Study of Cooperative Ventures Addressing the Needs of Forest Landowners in Southern Appalachia
… social, economic, and ecological conditions for forest landowners throughout the United States. One possible response to these new and recurring challenges is economic cooperatives, an old idea being retooled and reapplied, keeping more of the power, control, and profit generated by natural …
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An analysis of timber trespass and theft issues in the Southern Appalachian region
Timber theft is a crime within the forest industry which has not received a large amount of attention within research literature. As a result, there are no recent estimates available of the extent of the problem. The southern Appalachian region has conditions which seem to be conducive to timber …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… contributes towards science studies in the forestry milieu, a topic little investigated. In particular, it directs attention to the paucity of theoretical and critical discourse amongst the private landowner research community. While conducting research into private forest landowners, …
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A failing science: Understanding private landowners in the forestry milieu
… contributes towards science studies in the forestry milieu, a topic little investigated. In particular, it directs attention to the paucity of theoretical and critical discourse amongst the private landowner research community. While conducting research into private forest landowners, …