Chapter 11 Challenges of governance and land management on the exurban/wilderness frontier in the USA

Kretser, Heidi E.; Hilty, Jodi A.; Glennon, Michale J.; Burrell, Jeffery F.; Smith, Zoe; Knuth, Barbara A.

doi:10.1108/s1057-1922(2009)0000014014

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“…With new technologies enabling work from remote locations, highly valued private lands in close proximity to natural and protected areas in the US have become attractive for second-home development and/or amenity migration [13,14]. These private lands, including areas near the Adirondack State Park (ADK) in New York State and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) in the state of Montana, USA, are often more ecologically productive than public lands because of their low elevation and high soil productivity [15,16] but are susceptible to exurban development because of their natural beauty, privacy, and accessibility to nature [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. More than 90% of all US federally threatened and endangered flora and fauna have some or all of their habitat on non-federal land [25] and private lands adjacent to protected areas are therefore critical to biodiversity protection.…”

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Exurbia East and West: Responses of Bird Communities to Low Density Residential Development in Two North American Regions

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2021

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Exurban development is a prevalent cause of habitat loss and alteration throughout the globe and is a common land-use pattern in areas of high natural amenity value. We investigated the response of bird communities to exurban development in two contrasting North American regions, the Adirondack Park (New York) in the eastern US, and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (Montana) in the Rocky Mountain West. We combined social and ecological data collection methods to compare the effects of exurban development on avian communities between the two landscapes, and, in exurban residential areas within them, to compare the relative roles of habitat structure, resource provisioning, and human disturbance in influencing avian habitat use. Contrasting with an earlier pilot study, we found differential effects of exurban development in the two regions, with birds generally more responsive in the Adirondack Park. Characteristics of habitat context and structure had larger influences on bird habitat use than human-associated resource provisioning or disturbance in both landscapes. The smaller magnitude and high variability in the responses of birds to landowner stewardship and/or disturbance suggest that broader geographical factors are highly important and that careful siting of developments on the landscape may be more successful at protecting wildlife communities than attempts to influence the behaviors of their inhabitants once built.

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