Despite failure: The emergence of “new” forest owners in private forest policy in Wisconsin, USA

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 503-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Rickenbach ◽  
Kimberly Zeuli ◽  
Emily Sturgess-Cleek
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
New Forest

scholarly journals Forest Landowners' Willingness to Sell Carbon Credits: A Pilot Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena S. Fletcher ◽  
David Kittredge ◽  
Thomas Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Carbon Markets ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Landowners ◽  
New Forest ◽  
Carbon Prices ◽  
Larger Sample

Abstract Sequestered carbon is a new forest product that could help private forest owners earn financial returns while keeping their forests intact. Private forest owners are responsible for 78% of forests in Massachusetts, and the carbon these trees sequester could be traded in emerging cap-and-trade carbon markets in the United States. In forming policy about climate change and forestry, it is important to understand the factors that influence the likelihood of landowners choosing to sell sequestered carbon and participate in the carbon marketplace. In this pilot study, we explored the likelihood of Massachusetts forest owners selling carbon sequestered on their forestland. We found that landowners significantly favor higher payments, no withdrawal penalty, and, unexpectedly, longer time commitments. We also found that at current carbon prices, very few participants (less than 7%) would be willing to sell. Additional studies need to be conducted, with a larger sample of respondents, which may elucidate how socioeconomic variables and ownership attitudes influence forest owners' willingness to enroll in carbon markets.

Vermarktung von Waldleistungen: Engagement, Fachwissen und Solidarität sind gefragt! (Essay) | Commercialization of forest services: active involvement, knowledge of the subject and solidarity are required (essay)

2009 ◽  
Vol 160 (8) ◽  
pp. 224-227
Author(s):  
Heinz Nigg
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Matters Of Concern ◽  
Privately Owned

A structure of small surfaces with a large proportion of private forest owners and important stocks of wood characterize forestry conditions in canton Appenzell Outer Rhodes. The forest owners are often lacking in initiative, in specific knowledge, in personal and financial resources and in suitable structures for a successful commercialization of non-wood services. A few positive examples show ways to improve this situation and demonstrate the importance, particularly in the privately owned forest sector, of an actively involved, versatile and interested forest ranger. Increasing the awareness of the various people concerned and their mobilization is of far greater importance than the issuing of new regulations. The forest ranger can help through well-directed encouragement concerning marketing and by an integration of the forest non-wood services into the general forestry development program. One of the aims of the forest policy of the canton is that in the future services provided by the forest which are central matters of concern to the community and the greater running costs associated with these should be appropriately compensated.

Kollektiv handeln im klein parzellierten Luzerner Wald: ein Erfahrungsbericht | Collective action in small-scale forestry in Lucerne: a progress report

2008 ◽  
Vol 159 (12) ◽  
pp. 441-447 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albin Schmidhauser
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
Total Surface Area ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Open Communication ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Regional Organization ◽  
Regional Organizations ◽  
Almost Everywhere

An important matter of concern in the Lucerne forest policy is how to overcome the structural hindrances caused by the small size of private forest property. For this reason, since 2006, the project “Creation of regional organizations for forest management cooperation” has been followed. A regional organization is an association of forest owners for the purpose of managing their forests together under the direction of a forestry expert. By the middle of 2008, 28% of all private forest owners belonged to such a regional organization. These are now to be found almost everywhere in the canton and already represent 39% of all private forest parcels and 60% of the total surface area in private hands. The present success of the regional organizations is largely to be attributed to the project's introduction from the bottom up, to its clear and simple structure, to the efforts at open communication and to the initial financial aid given by the canton. For most of the forest owners, joining a regional organization means a break with tradition. Therefore, in the course of the reflections and discussions conducted, a central part is occupied by the themes: giving up long-standing relationships with customers; introducing new and scarcely known forms of sales procedures; and the middle- and long-term financing of the regional organizations from the forest proceeds.

Waldpolitik des Bundes – Ein neuer Prozess ist gestartet | Federal forest policy – the start of a new process

2001 ◽  
Vol 152 (12) ◽  
pp. 531-533
Author(s):  
Werner Schärer
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Regional Policy ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Protection Policy ◽  
Joint Task ◽  
New Process ◽  
Clean Air ◽  
Landscape Protection

Modern forest policy must take the following two conditions into account:1. Forest policy is an intersectoral policy involving elements of regional policy, nature conservation and landscape protection policy, as well as agricultural, clean-air, climate and economic policies.2. It is the joint task of the federal authorities, cantons, municipalities,relevant organisations and forest owners. Over the next few years, Buwal will develop a forestry programme for Switzerland together with all the relevant actors,which will fulfil both current and forthcoming forest policy requirements at both national and international levels.

scholarly journals Private Forests in Nepal: Status and Policy Analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swoyambhu M. Amatya ◽  
Prakash Lamsal
Keyword(s):  
Present Status ◽  
National Level ◽  
Timber Harvesting ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Private Land ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Community Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Private Forests

 This paper reviews and analyses the present status of private forests and tenure administration in light of existing legal, policy, and regulatory frameworks in Nepal. Additionally, the present status of private forests, as well as the scenarios of timber harvesting, transportation, marketing, and their administration are thoroughly revised. Provisions regarding forests and trees on private land and their basis are examined and implications are articulated for potential policy improvements for enhanced tenure security. It is shown that robust national-level policies and legal frameworks exist, and that there is an increasing trend of timber flows to markets from private forests over the past five years. However, there is still skepticism, mistrust and fear amongst private forest owners, saw millers, and forest administration that prevents the full use of the bundle of rights that legal and policy provisions have promised. An unusually slow pace of private forest registration, lengthy and multi stage processes for obtaining harvesting and transportation permits, and official bans on important commercial species, among others, are found to be the factors that most hinder the private forest owners’ and tree growers’ interests, and their rights and obligations with respect to the management and use of their private forest resources. It is concluded that a simplified permitting process along with programmatic support would promote and help to grow private forestry and that Nepal’s experience and lessons learned from community forest implementation would be a great asset to move towards this end. Connecting community forest user groups for organised and cooperative action, and mobilising their institutional strength and accumulated funds for pro-farmer technical and regulatory support would allow farmers to intensify tree plantations and forest management. Further steps are required to convince policymakers and secure necessary budgetary support to this end..

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