Attitudes Toward Land-Use Planning and Controlled Population Growth in Jackson Hole

Cockerham, William C.; Blevins, Audie

doi:10.1080/15575330.1977.10878122

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“…Cockerham and Blevins (1977) found that long-term residents owned more land and were less supportive of public planning efforts than those owning less land. Fortmann and Huntsinger (1989) found parcel size to be insignificant in predicting forest management activities.…”

Section: Land Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 97%

Property Rights and Public Interests: A Wyoming Agricultural Lands Study

Inman

McLeod

2002

Growth and Change

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Rocky Mountain states have experienced unprecedented growth as agricultural land is converted to residences. Preservation efforts meet with protest from private landholders claiming public efforts undermine private property rights. This paper explores the degree to which respondents think management of agricultural lands is a public versus a private matter. Data are from a Sublette County, Wyoming, mail survey. Results are relevant to many western counties having public lands and high growth rates. They suggest that landowners, wage earners, college graduates, and those who value the county's rural community lifestyle support public management strategies. Well-established residents and those with economic reasons for living in the county support private management strategies. Copyright 2002 Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky.

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Section: Land Ownershipmentioning

confidence: 97%

Property Rights and Public Interests: A Wyoming Agricultural Lands Study

Inman

McLeod

2002

Growth and Change

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“…In a number of studies from the urban-to-rural population turnaround of the 1970s, authors stated that there were value differences and related conflicts between newcomers and longer-term residents ; in some cases they provided empirical evidence . Examples of such conflicts included environmental preservation and growth issues in Maine (Ploch 1978), schools in Oregon (Hennigh 1978), growth issues in Wyoming (Cockerham and Blevins 1977), growth and preservation issues in Colorado (Graber 1974), and housing codes in California (Sokolow 1977).…”

Section: Rural In-migration and Culture Clashmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In their study of Jackson, Wyoming, Cockerham and Blevins (1977) found that the conflict between newcomers and longer-term residents over planning was based in part on the amount of land owned by the respective groups . Longer-term residents tended to own larger tracts of land ; they did not support additional planning, which they viewed as restricting their ability to use the land as they saw fit .…”

Section: Rural In-migration and Culture Clashmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Culture Clash'' Revisited: Newcomer and Longer‐Term Residents' Attitudes Toward Land Use, Development, and Environmental Issues in Rural Communities in the Rocky Mountain West*

Smith¹,

2000

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Many rural communities in the Rocky Mountain West with high amenity values have experienced substantial in‐migration in the 1990s. Popular media accounts and some social science literature suggest that newcomers have very different values than longer‐term residents regarding environment, growth, and development issues, and that these differences are resulting in widespread social conflict. We evaluate these “culture clash” and “gangplank” hypotheses using survey data from three rural communities in the Rocky Mountain West that are experiencing amenity‐related in‐migration. We examine attitudes about environmental concern, population growth, economic development, and tourism development. Results indicate that newcomers differ significantly from longer‐term residents on a number of sociodemographic dimensions, but either there are no significant attitude differences between the two groups, or, where difference exist, longer‐term residents wish more strongly than newcomers to limit population growth and development in their communities. We offer explanations for why the results differ from media accounts and from the earlier research observations and hypotheses.

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“…We used local status as a cultural variable for two reasons. First, we thought long-term residents may hold disproportionately high proportions of wealth in real estate, and be more likely to avoid community planning because it threatened their economic well being (Cockerham and Blevins, 1977). Second, previous studies suggest long-term residents share place-based community values and ideology related to perceptions of development (Buchecker et al, 2003;Fortmann and Kusel, 1990;Graber, 1974;Peterson et al, 2006a;Smith and Krannich, 2000).…”

Section: Conceptual Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%