Effects of biological monitoring and results outreach on private landowner conservation management.

ABSTRACT: Sustained management efforts by private landowners are crucial for the long-term success of private land natural resource conservation and related environmental benefits. Landowner outreach is a primary means of recruiting private landowners into voluntary conservation incentive programs, and could also help sustain conservation behaviors through time. However, evaluation of outreach targeting landowners during or after participation in natural resource conservation incentive programs is lacking. We assessed two methods of landowner outreach associated with a Natural Resources Conservation Service incentive program targeting effective management of early successional forest habitat on private land in the Appalachians and Upper Great Lakes regions of the United States. While early successio

SUBMITTER: Lutter SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5884542 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature