With, Not for, Money: Ranch Management Trajectories of the Super-Rich in Greater Yellowstone

Epstein, Kathleen; Haggerty, Julia H.; Gosnell, Hannah

doi:10.1080/24694452.2021.1930512

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“…Land ownership significantly shapes what invasive plant management and rewilding are attempted or possible, but as Epstein et al. (2022) note, even highly wealthy owners cannot entirely distance themselves from regional ecologies and social and material localities. Often, Indigenous land management approaches are restrained by state frameworks (Bach et al., 2019), especially in Australia, where co‐governance is the preferred model (Hill et al., 2012).…”

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Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding

Atchison,

Pickerill,

Arnold

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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The concept of ‘peopled landscapes’ is based on the notion that it is not possible, nor socially or politically desirable, to remove people from the environment in the era of the Anthropocene. As such, it is necessary to document and develop ways to coexist and flourish. This review examines emergent scholarship about peopled landscapes and biodiversity conservation by considering invasive plant management and rewilding as social processes. While invasive plant management and rewilding are often understood as separate, thinking through social scientific research and examples from Australia and the UK, we demonstrate how both forms of human action in landscapes can be more usefully understood as social relations with nature involving social change and social action. Drawing attention to agency, practices and capacity, we show how diverse forms of human and nonhuman actions are recognised, attributed or acknowledged in biodiversity conservation in peopled landscapes. In practice, centring the idea of peopled landscapes (rather than conceiving of the environment as where the impact of people is minimised) shows how invasive plant management and rewilding can be understood as related responses to environmental problems. Flourishing and coexistence in peopled landscapes require recognition of the diverse human and nonhuman agencies that shape the politics of acceptable action, and illustrate the inseparability of environmental and social justice. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding

Atchison,

Pickerill,

Arnold

et al. 2024

People and Nature

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“…These cities are desirable for much the same reason that many of the "institutional grade investment geographies" of global farmland and timberland investment are appealing (Kay, 2022;Ouma, 2020)-they are politically nonvolatile, with stable currencies and legal structures that mitigate investment risks, while also signaling belonging to the global elite (Story & Saul, 2015;Wainwright, 2019). Outside of global cities, ownership of status properties like the investment by high-net-worth individuals in ranches or other rural leisure properties (Merrill et al, 2019) has also increased recently, bringing new motives and management regimes into rural areas (Epstein et al, 2019(Epstein et al, , 2022.…”

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“…Hines (2010) and Ghose (2004), for example, focus on the transformations of industrial, working landscapes into tourist or leisure spaces through the in‐migration of members of the “postindustrial middle class” (Hines, 2010) from cities, leading to changing tastes and spiraling real estate prices, as well as the inscription of urban cultural norms and preferences onto the landscape (Walker & Fortmann, 2003). As Nelson and Hines (2018) argue, the rural gentrification framing was more likely to be taken up by UK‐based scholars for several decades–usually with a class or culture bent–with US‐based scholars preferring the framing of “amenity migration” (Epstein et al., 2022, p. 433), and only recently engaging with the gentrification framing beginning in the 2000s. Amenity migration, as it is conceptualized in many studies of the American West in particular, is “the movement of largely affluent urban or suburban populations to rural areas for specific lifestyle amenities, such as natural scenery, proximity to outdoor recreation, cultural richness, or a sense of rurality” (Abrams et al., 2012, p. 270).…”

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Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US

2023

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In this review, we bridge recent studies on the political economy of urban and rural real property ownership, focusing on the US. While there are many parallels and interlinkages between urban and rural phenomena, we note that the field generally produces a different literature for each space: one largely about urban housing and another about rural land. We argue that foregrounding their common legal status as “real property” can help develop new and important analyses that unravel the urban/rural binary. Such an approach suggests, for instance, that gentrification and amenity migration are simply urban and rural manifestations of similar underlying dynamics. This awareness also helps enable the search for institutions that connect country and city, such as investors that target real property across multiple geographies. Thus, we broadly outline the points of overlap and divergence between studies of urban and rural real property ownership in order to open up space for more comparative and relational analyses. Finally, we conclude by suggesting two sets of literature that offer resources for unraveling the urban/rural binary: the work of Doreen Massey and Indigenous geographies.

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“…For example, land ownership patterns in the Intermountain West have shifted because of larger‐scale (global) economic and cultural dynamics. While publicly managed grazing lands have had a role in sustaining lower income communities, trends in high net worth landownership of ranching lands (Epstein et al., 2022) are shifting grazing land geographies. This land ownership change not only reshapes specific patterns of grazing land resources, but also manager goals across the landscape related to wildlife, public access, and ranching community cultures, with real consequences for ecosystem management and climate adaptation practice adoption that merit additional research and dialogue (Epstein et al., 2019).…”

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Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by US grazing land managers with a changing climate

Derner

Wilmer

Stackhouse-Lawson

et al. 2023

Agrosystems Geosci & Env

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We outline practical considerations for grazing land adaptations with a changing climate, with an emphasis on the ranch operation scale and specific attention to directional climate changes and increased climate variability. These adaptive strategies fall into two themes: flexibility and learning under uncertainty. Ranches and livestock operations with greater land, social, or other capital resources may have more flexibility. Risk can be reduced for managers (ranchers, farmers, operators, and livestock managers) through participation in conservation or farm policy programs and/or market-based approaches. Bolstering adaptive capacity across landscapes and time can originate from social capital of operators and strategic collaborations among managers and scientists. As climate diverges from historical baselines and the realm of managers' experiential knowledge, new conceptual frameworks are needed to structure conversations, influence research relevancy and impact, and drive imaginative solutions among researchers, managers, and local communities for socioecological systems. We provide simplified frameworks to help guide conversation, future research, and new imaginative solutions for systems-scale knowledge needs and adaptation to address increasingly uncertain and complex change at multiple scales. Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by grazing land managers with a changing climate will be accelerated through (1) collaborative efforts among managers and explicitly with science-management partnerships becoming more mainstream, (2) co-produced research with managers and researchers at ranch scales, (3) development of communities of practice and associated learning opportunities, and (4) continued co-development and advancement of technologies and tools that result in high uptake adoption by ranch managers.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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With, Not for, Money: Ranch Management Trajectories of the Super-Rich in Greater Yellowstone

Cited by 14 publications

References 53 publications

Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding

Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding

Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US

Practical considerations for adaptive strategies by US grazing land managers with a changing climate

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