Publication Cover
Society & Natural Resources
An International Journal
Volume 32, 2019 - Issue 2
343
Views
7
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

Characterizing Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners' Forest Management Engagement and Advice Sources

ORCID Icon, , ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon &
Pages 204-221 | Received 28 Aug 2017, Accepted 16 Jul 2018, Published online: 09 Nov 2018

References

  • Abrams, J. B., and J. C. Bliss. 2013. Amenity landownership, land use change, and the re-creation of “working landscapes.” Society and Natural Resources 26(7):845–859. doi:10.1080/08941920.2012.719587.
  • Abrams, J. B., N. J. Gill, H. Gosnell, and P. J. Klepeis. 2012. Re-creating the rural, reconstructing nature: An international literature review of the environmental implications of amenity migration. Conservation and Society 10(3):270. doi:10.4103/0972-4923.101837
  • Ager, A. A., N. M. Vaillant, M. A. Finney, and H. K. Preisler. 2012. Analyzing wildfire exposure and source–sink relationships on a fire prone forest landscape. Forest Ecology and Management 267:271–283. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2011.11.021.
  • Amacher, G. S., A. S. Malik, and R. G. Haight. 2005. Nonindustrial private landowners, fires, and the wildland-urban interface. Forest Policy and Economics 7(5):796–805. doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2005.03.004.
  • Andrejczyk, K., B. J. Butler, B. J. Dickinson, J. H. Hewes, M. Markowski-Lindsay, D. B. Kittredge, M. A. Kilgore, S. A. Snyder, and P. F. Catanzaro. 2016. Family forest owners’ perceptions of landowner assistance programs in the USA: a qualitative exploration of program impacts on behaviour. Small-Scale Forestry 15(1):17–28. doi:10.1007/s11842-015-9304-z.
  • Armitage, D. R., R. Plummer, F. Berkes, R. I. Arthur, A. T. Charles, I. J. Davidson-Hunt, A. P. Diduck, N. C. Doubleday, D. S. Johnson, M. Marschke, et al. 2009. Adaptive co-management for social-ecological complexity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(2):95–102. doi:10.1890/070089.
  • Beebe, G. S., and P. N. Omi. 1993. Wildland burning: The perception of risk. Journal of Forestry 91(9):19–24. doi:10.1093/jof/91.9.19.
  • Bergmann, S. A., and J. C. Bliss. 2004. Foundations of cross-boundary cooperation: Resource management at the public–private interface. Society and Natural Resources 17(5):377–393. doi:10.1080/08941920490430142.
  • Berkes, F. 2009. Evolution of co-management: Role of knowledge generation, bridging organizations and social learning. Journal of Environmental Management 90(5):1692–1702. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2008.12.001.
  • Bieling, C. 2004. Non-industrial private-forest owners: possibilities for increasing adoption of close-to-nature forest management. European Journal of Forest Research 123(4):293–303. doi:10.1007/s10342-004-0042-6.
  • Biernacki, P., and D. Waldorf. 1981. Snowball sampling: Problems and techniques of chain referral sampling. Sociological Methods and Research 10(2):141–163. doi:10.1177/004912418101000205
  • Black, R., W. N. Adger, N. W. Arnell, S. Dercon, A. Geddes, and D. Thomas. 2011. The effect of environmental change on human migration. Global Environmental Change 21:S3–S11. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.10.001.
  • Bliss, J. C., and A. J. Martin. 1989. Identifying NIPF management motivations with qualitative methods. Forest Science 35(2):601–622.
  • Boag, A. E., J. Hartter, L. C. Hamilton, F. R. Stevens, M. J. Ducey, M. W. Palace, N. D. Christoffersen, and P. T. Oester. 2015. Forest views: Shifting attitudes toward the environment in northeast Oregon. National issue brief #81, Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy.
  • Brummel, R. F., K. C. Nelson, S. G. Souter, P. J. Jakes, and D. R. Williams. 2010. Social learning in a policy-mandated collaboration: Community wildfire protection planning in the Eastern United States. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53(6):681–699. doi:10.1080/09640568.2010.488090.
  • Burns, S., C. Sperry, and R. Hodgson. 2002. Community stewardship and civic engagement. In Fire, fuel treatments, and ecological restoration: Conference proceedings, ed. P. Omi, and L. Joyce, 213–224. RMRS-P-29. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service Proceedings.
  • Butler, W. H., and B. E. Goldstein. 2010. The US fire learning network: springing a rigidity trap through multi-scalar collaborative networks. Ecology and Society 15(3):21.
  • Charmaz, K. 2006. Constructing grounded theory: A practical guide through qualitative research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Charnley, S., A. P. Fischer, and E. T. Jones. 2007. Integrating traditional and local ecological knowledge into forest biodiversity conservation in the Pacific Northwest. Forest Ecology and Management 246(1):14–28. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.047.
  • Charnley, S., E. C. Kelly, and K. L. Wendel. 2017. All lands approaches to fire management in the Pacific West: A typology. Journal of Forestry 115(1):16–25. doi:10.5849/jof.15-092.
  • Cheng, A. S. 2002. Fire social science research: Opening remarks. In Fire, fuel treatments, and ecological restoration: Conference proceedings, ed. P. Omi, and L. Joyce, 209–211. RMRS-P-29. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service Proceedings.
  • Cheng, A. S., and T. Randall-Parker. 2017. Examining the influence of positionality in evaluating collaborative progress in natural resource management: Reflections of an academic and a practitioner. Society and Natural Resources 30(9):1168–1178. doi:10.1080/08941920.2017.1295493.
  • Christoffersen, N. 2013. Wallowa Whitman forest collaborative.. http://sustainablenorthwest.org/uploads/resources/WWFC_Presentation_7-22-13.ppt (Accessed February 18, 2018)
  • Conway, M. C., G. S. Amacher, J. Sullivan, and D. Wear. 2003. Decisions nonindustrial forest landowners make: An empirical examination. Journal of Forest Economics 9:181–203. doi:10.1078/1104-6899-00034.
  • Creswell, J. W. 1998. Quality inquiry and research design: Choosing among five traditions. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • DeCoster, L. A. 1998. The boom in forest owners–A bust for forestry? Journal of Forestry 96(5):25–28. doi:10.1093/jof/96.5.25.
  • Dhubháin, A., R. Chobanova, H. Karppinen, D. Mizaraite, E. Ritter, B. Slee, and S. Wall, 2006. The values and objectives of private forest owners and their influence on forestry behaviour: the implications for entrepreneurship. In Issues affecting enterprise development in the forest sector in Europe, ed. A. Niskanen, 71–83. Joensu, FI: University of Joensu Faculty of Forestry.
  • Dilling, L., K. Lackstrom, B. Haywood, K. Dow, M. C. Lemos, J. Berggren, and S. Kalafatis. 2015. What stakeholder needs tell us about enabling adaptive capacity: The intersection of context and information provision across regions in the United States. Weather, Climate, and Society 7(1):5–17. doi:10.1175/WCAS-D-14-00001.1.
  • Dilling, L., and M. C. Lemos. 2011. Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy. Global Environmental Change 21:680–689. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.11.006.
  • Domínguez, G., and M. Shannon. 2011. A wish, a fear and a complaint: Understanding the (dis) engagement of forest owners in forest management. European Journal of Forest Research 130(3):435–450. doi:10.1007/s10342-009-0332-0.
  • Fernandez-Gimenez, M. E., H. L. Ballard, and V. E. Sturtevant. 2008. Adaptive management and social learning in collaborative and community based monitoring: A study of five community-based forestry organizations in the Western USA. Ecology and Society 13(2):4.
  • Fischer, A. P. 2011. Reducing hazardous fuels on nonindustrial private forests: Factors influencing landowner decisions. Journal of Forestry 109(5):260–266.
  • Fischer, A. P. 2012. Identifying policy target groups with qualitative and quantitative methods: The case of wildfire risk on nonindustrial private Forest lands. Forest Policy and Economics 25:62–71. doi:10.1093/jof/109.5.260.
  • Fischer, A. P., and S. Charnley. 2012. Risk and cooperation: Managing hazardous fuel in mixed ownership landscapes. Environmental Management 49(6):1192–1207. doi:10.1007/s00267-012-9848-z.
  • Fischer, A. P., T. Paveglio, M. Carroll, D. Murphy, and H. Brenkert-Smith. 2013. Assessing social vulnerability to climate change in human communities near public forests and grasslands: A framework for resource managers and planners. Journal of Forestry 111(5):357–365. doi:10.5849/jof.12-091.
  • Fischer, A. P., T. A. Spies, T. A. Steelman, C. Moseley, B. R. Johnson, J. D. Bailey, A. A. Ager, P. Bourgeron, S. Charnley, B. M. Collins, et al. 2016. Wildfire risk as a socioecological pathology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 14(5):276–284. doi:10.1002/fee.1283.
  • Fischer, A., and L. Jasny. 2017. Capacity to adapt to environmental change: Evidence from a network of organizations concerned with increasing wildfire risk. Ecology and Society 22(1):23. doi:10.5751/ES-08867-220123.
  • Fried, J. S., G. Winter, and K. Gilless. 1999. Assessing the benefits of reducing fire risk in the wildland-urban interface: A contingent valuation approach. Ecology and Society 22(1):9–21. doi:10.1071/WF99002.
  • Glaser, B. G., and A. L. Strauss. 1967. The discovering of grounded theory. Chicago, IL: Aldine.
  • Goldstein, B. E., and R. B. Hull. 2008. Socially explicit fire regimes. Society & Natural Resources 21(6):469–482. doi:10.1080/08941920701648879
  • Goldstein, B. E., W. H. Butler, and R. B. Hull. 2010. The fire learning network: A promising conservation strategy for forestry. Journal of Forestry 108(3):120–125.
  • Gray, G. J., M. J. Enzer, and J. Kusel. 2001. Understanding community-based Forest ecosystem management: An editorial synthesis. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 12(2–4):1–23. doi:10.1300/J091v12n03_01.
  • Hamilton, L. C., J. Hartter, F. R. Stevens, and R. G. Congalton. 2012. Forest views: Northeast Oregon survey looks at community and environment. National issue brief #47, Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy.
  • Hamilton, L. C., J. Hartter, T. G. Safford, and F. R. Stevens. 2014. Rural environmental concern: effects of position, partisanship, and place. Rural Sociology 79(2):257–281. doi:10.1111/ruso.12023.
  • Hartter, J., F. R. Stevens, L. C. Hamilton, P. T. Oester, R. G. Congalton, M. J. Ducey, and M. A. Crowley. 2014. Forest management and wildfire risk in inland northwest. National issue brief #70, Durham, NH: Carsey School of Public Policy
  • Hartter, J., F. R. Stevens, L. C. Hamilton, R. G. Congalton, M. J. Ducey, and P. T. Oester. 2015. Modelling associations between public understanding, engagement and Forest conditions in the inland northwest, USA. PloS One 10(2):e0117975. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0117975.
  • Hujala, T., J. Pykäläinen, and J. Tikkanen. 2007. Decision making among Finnish non-industrial private forest owners: The role of professional opinion and desire to learn. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 22(5):454–463. doi:10.1080/02827580701395434.
  • Hujala, T., and J. Tikkanen. 2008. Boosters of and barriers to smooth communication in family forest owners’ decision making. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 23(5):466–477. doi:10.1080/02827580802334209.
  • Jarrett, A., J. Gan, C. Johnson, and I. A. Munn. 2009. Landowner awareness and adoption of wildfire programs in the Southern United States. Journal of Forestry 107(3):113–118. doi:10.1093/jof/107.3.113.
  • Jones, M., and N. Christoffersen. 2016. Wallowa County, Oregon, USA: Restoration of forest systems and rural livelihoods: A partial resilience assessment of a work in progress. Gland, CH: International Union for Conservation of Nature.
  • Joshi, S., and K. G. Arano. 2009. Determinants of private Forest management decisions: A study on West Virginia NIPF landowners. Forest Policy and Economics 11(2):118–125. doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2008.10.005.
  • Karppinen, H. 1998. Values and objectives of non-industrial private forest owners in Finland. Silva Fennica 32(1):43–59.
  • Kline, J. D., R. J. Alig, and R. L. Johnson. 2000. Fostering the production of nontimber services among forest owners with heterogeneous objectives. Forest Science 46(2):302–311. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2008.04.006.
  • Knoot, T. G., and M. Rickenbach. 2011. Best management practices and timber harvesting: the role of social networks in shaping landowner decisions. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 26(2):171–182. doi:10.1080/02827581.2010.545827.
  • Kruger, L. E., and M. A. Shannon. 2000. Getting to know ourselves and our places through participation in civic social assessment. Society and Natural Resources 13(5):461–478. doi:10.1080/089419200403866.
  • Lurie, S., and M. Hibbard. 2008. Community-based natural resource management: Ideals and realities for Oregon watershed councils. Society and Natural Resources 21(5):430–440. doi:10.1080/08941920801898085.
  • McGee, T. K. 2011. Public engagement in neighbourhood level wildfire mitigation and preparedness: Case studies from Canada, the US and Australia. Journal of Environmental Management 92(10):2524–2532. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2011.05.017.
  • Meadows, J., J. Herbohn, and N. Emtage. 2013. Supporting cooperative forest management among small-acreage lifestyle landowners in southeast Queensland, Australia. Society and Natural Resources 26(7):745–761. doi:10.1080/08941920.2012.719586.
  • Novais, A., and M. J. Canadas. 2010. Understanding the management logic of private Forest owners: A new approach. Forest Policy and Economics 12(3):173–180. doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2009.09.010.
  • Oswalt, S. N., and W. B. Smith. 2014. U.S. Forest resource facts and historical trends. FS-1035, Washington, DC: United State Department of Agriculture Forest Service.
  • Parker, B., P. T. Oester, D. Leavell, N. Strong, and E. J. Davis. 2017. Life on the dry side. Spring 2017, Baker City, OR: Oregon State University College of Forestry Extension.
  • Paton, D., and F. Tedim. 2013. Enhancing Forest fires preparedness in Portugal: Integrating community engagement and risk management. Planet@ Risk 1(1):44–52.
  • Rickenbach, M., K. Zeuli, and E. Sturgess-Cleek. 2005. Despite failure: The emergence of “new” forest owners in private forest policy in Wisconsin, USA. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 20(6):503–513. doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2009.08.006.
  • Rickenbach, M. 2009. Serving members and reaching others: The performance and social networks of a landowner cooperative. Forest Policy and Economics 11(8):593–599. doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2009.08.006.
  • Ryan, R. L., and E. Hamin. 2008. Wildfires, communities, and agencies: Stakeholders’ perceptions of postfire forest restoration and rehabilitation. Journal of Forestry 106(7):370–379.
  • Saldaña, J. 2009. The coding manual for qualitative researchers. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Salmon, O., M. Brunson, and M. Kuhns. 2006. Benefit-based audience segmentation: A tool for identifying nonindustrial private Forest (NIPF) owner education needs. Journal of Forestry 104(8):419–425.
  • Schoennagel, T., J. K. Balch, H. Brenkert-Smith, P. E. Dennison, B. J. Harvey, M. A. Krawchuk, N. Mietkiewicz, P. Morgan, M. A. Moritz, R. Rasker, et al. 2017. Adapt to more wildfire in Western North American forests as climate changes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(18):4582–4590. doi:10.1073/pnas.1617464114.
  • Shindler, B., and K. A. Cheek. 1999. Integrating citizens in adaptive management: A propositional analysis. Conservation Ecology 3(1):1–11.
  • Simpson, C. F., L. Dilling, K. Dow, K. J. Lackstrom, M. C. Lemos, and R. E. Riley. 2016. Assessing needs and decision contexts: RISA approaches to engagement research. In Climate in context: Science and society partnering for adaptation, ed. A. S. Parris, G. M. Garfin, K. Dow, R. Meyer, and S. L. Close, 3–26. Washington, DC: American Geophysical Union.
  • Smit, B., and J. Wandel. 2006. Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Global Environmental Change 16(3):282–292. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2006.03.008.
  • Strauss, A., and J. M. Corbin. 1990. Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Theobald, D. M., and W. H. Romme. 2007. Expansion of the US wildland-urban interface. Landscape and Urban Planning 83(4):340–354. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.06.002
  • Vokoun, M., G. S. Amacher, and D. N. Wear. 2006. Scale of harvesting by non-industrial private forest landowners. Journal of Forest Economics 11(4):223–244. doi:10.1016/j.jfe.2005.10.002
  • Wallowa County Tax Lot Data. 2013. [dataset]. Tax Assessor's Office, Wallowa County. (Accessed June 30, 2014).
  • Wilmsen, C., W. F. Elmendorf, L. Fisher, J. Ross, B. Sarathy, and G. Wells. 2008. Partnerships for empowerment: Participatory research for community-based natural resource management. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.