Time and Distance: Comparing Motivations Among Forest Landowners in New England, USA |
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| Authors: | Mark Rickenbach David B Kittredge |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 120 Russell Labs, 1630 Linden Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA;(2) Department of Natural Resources Conservation, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Holdsworth Hall, Amherst, MA 01003, USA;(3) Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA 01366, USA |
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| Abstract: | Parcelization and shifting landownership are critical forces reshaping forested ecosystems in the USA and elsewhere. These
forces create a mosaic of new and long-time landowners as well as differences in residency. Using survey data (n = 879) of
landowners in Massachusetts and Vermont, USA, we begin the process of sorting out time (i.e., length of landownership) and
distance (i.e., distance of primary residence from forest holding), and their relationships to motivations for continued landownership
and management. Both time and distance, and their interaction were significant in explaining three motivations for landownership:
enjoyment, production, and protection as well as the number of neighbors with which respondents were acquainted. Distance
is the statistically more important factor—negatively related to all dependent variables, but time and its interaction with
distance offer the more useful insights for intervention.
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| Keywords: | Private forest landowners Absentee ownership Length of ownership Motivations Neighbors |
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