Journal article
Private landowner interest in market-based incentive programs for endangered species habitat conservation
SL Rodriguez, MN Peterson, FW Cubbage, EO Sills, HD Bondell
Wildlife Society Bulletin | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2012
DOI: 10.1002/wsb.159
Abstract
More than 75% of endangered species in the United States rely on private lands for habitat. Although this habitat has long been regulated under the Endangered Species Act, there is now broad agreement that economic incentives are also needed for effective protection on private land. Many different mechanisms for incentive programs have been proposed and tested. For example, recovery credit systems use term-duration market-based contracts to engage landowners in endangered species conservation. We examined how market-mechanism design influences interest in endangered species habitat conservation using a survey of North Carolina Farm Bureau county advisory board members in 93 of the 100 North ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Funding and support for our research were provided by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Texas A&M University, The Dean's Office of the College of Natural Resources at NC State University and the North Carolina Farm Bureau. We thank the North Carolina Farm Bureau staff, especially C. Lowder, for their invaluable assistance with implementing our survey and North Carolina Farm Bureau county advisory board members for the generosity of their time in participating in our study. We would also like to thank D. Riley of the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service for providing information about Farm Bill programs in North Carolina.