Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowner Beliefs Toward Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in the Southern United States

Khanal, Puskar N.; Grebner, Donald L.; Munn, Ian A.; Grado, Stephen C.; Grala, Robert K.; Henderson, James E.; Measells, Marcus K.

doi:10.5849/jof.15-033

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“…The 2016 survey had a 23% adjusted response rate, while the 1990s surveys reported in Arano et al [19] averaged 21%. A similar response rate was reported by Khanal et al [30] and Pokharel et al [31,32] for the state and region, respectively. As suggested by Armstrong and Overton [33], a non-response bias test was conducted using t-tests to compare the responses between the first 30 and last 30 respondents.…”

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Comparison of the Timber Management Expenses of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners in Mississippi, United States: Results from 1995–1997 and 2015

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Forest landowner activities change over the lifespan of the forest and ownership cycle. Patterns of change emerge which suggest the evolving nature of forest landownership and Non-industrial Private Forest (NIPF) landowners’ interest in their land. The objective of this study was to examine trends in NIPF landowners’ distribution of forestry expenses in their management activities over time. First, 2010 Mississippi NIPF landowners were randomly selected from a property tax roll list. Our analysis compared study results of Arano et al. (2002) with a 2016 survey that was conducted by the authors of this paper. Both studies drew on assessments of timber management expenditures that were conducted on behalf of a state government department of revenue to determine ad valorem taxes for forest land. As such, both studies contained similar survey questions with 12 forestry-related activities grouped into four major categories: (1) Fees for Professional Services (e.g., consulting foresters, surveyors), (2) Timber Management Expenditures (e.g., site preparation, planting), (3) Other Management Expenditures (e.g., road construction), and (4) Property Taxes. Like the 2002 article, results here are presented as descriptive statistics. In both survey cycles, Timber Management Expenditures represented the largest component of annual expenditures in both the 1990s and 2015. The largest decrease in reported expenditures occurred for Other Management Expenditures. By broadly describing differences in expenditures over time, this study provides insights into the involvement of NIPF landowners in management activities on forest land such as reforestation after final harvest, thinning, and timber stand improvement, which can impact forest products’ supply over time.

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Section: Response Ratessupporting

confidence: 88%

“…Although this study's response rate reflects that of similar forest landowner research in the southern U.S. [19,[30][31][32], future research must address the issue of low response rates. A large number of responses are important for an accurate representation of forest management expenditures.…”

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Comparison of the Timber Management Expenses of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners in Mississippi, United States: Results from 1995–1997 and 2015

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“…A total of 707 completed surveys were received, resulting in a final response rate of 24.3%. This response is on par with, or better than, response rates reported in recently conducted landowner surveys [[4], [5], [6], [7]]. Table 1 also provides information regarding the 21.7 and 26.9% response rates for the two fuelsheds.…”

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Dataset of forest landowner survey to assess interest in supplying woody biomass in two Southeastern United States fuelsheds

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This article presents data from a recent mail survey of forest landowners regarding their land ownership characteristics and motivations, past and future management activities, and owner perceptions of bioenergy and its impact on forests. The data presented in this article are related to the research article entitled ‘Opportunities and Attitudes of Private Forest Landowners in Supplying Woody Biomass for Renewable Energy’ [1]. The survey was conducted in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of the United States, where two primary ports exporting wood pellets to Europe are located. Specifically, the data include responses on forest characteristics, forest management activities, knowledge and interest in woody biomass for energy production, and sociodemographic variables. Additionally, landowner decisions for supplying wood for traditional forest products and biomass for energy were modeled. More than 2900 forest landowners were contacted, with 707 owners providing completed surveys.

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“…Blanco et al, 2015). Further, the majority of landowner typologies have been based on objectives for ownership (Kelly, Gold, & Di Tommaso, 2017;Khanal et al, 2017;Nielsen-Pincus et al, 2015) or more nuanced criteria such as attitudes towards climate change (Khanal et al, 2016), approaches to fire management (Charnley, Kelly, & Wendel, 2017), and thoughts on pollution (Perry-Hill & Prokopy, 2014). These are all proxies for behavior rather than explicitly functional behaviors.…”

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Landowner Functional Types to Characterize Response to Forest Insects

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Forest insects and pathogens (FIPs) play an important role in the complex interactions between woodland owners and the ecosystems they manage. Understanding the specifics of woodland owner decision-making with regard to trees impacted by FIPs can facilitate projections of future forest conditions and insect spread. Our first objective is to: (i) characterize agent functional types (AFTs) of New England family forest owners (FFOs) using a set of contingent behavior questions contained in a mail survey of FFOs concerning response to FIPs. We establish AFTs as a form of dimension reduction, effectively assigning individual FFOs to particular decision-making classes, each with distinct probabilities of behavior with respect to the harvest of impacted trees. Our second objective is to: (ii) model AFT membership to predict the distribution of AFTs across the landscape. Predictors are chosen from a set of survey, geographic, and demographic features. Accomplishing (i) establishes three functional classes of landowners: ‘cutters’ (46% of respondents; highly likely to cut timber impacted by FIPs), ‘responsive’ cutters (42% of respondents; sensitive to pest severity), and ‘non-cutters’ (12% of respondents; highly unlikely to cut). Fulfilling (ii) provides a high-resolution probability surface of AFTs across the landscape, delivering key input for simulation models of forest and land cover change in New England. Predictors in our best model of AFT membership include parcel size (hectares of forest), region, and town-level forested fraction.

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Nonindustrial Private Forest Landowner Beliefs Toward Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration in the Southern United States

Cited by 10 publications

References 15 publications

Comparison of the Timber Management Expenses of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners in Mississippi, United States: Results from 1995–1997 and 2015

Comparison of the Timber Management Expenses of Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners in Mississippi, United States: Results from 1995–1997 and 2015

Dataset of forest landowner survey to assess interest in supplying woody biomass in two Southeastern United States fuelsheds

Landowner Functional Types to Characterize Response to Forest Insects

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