Understanding Market Opportunities Utilizing the Forest Resources of the Cross-timbers Ecoregion

Sustaining Cross-Timbers Forest Resources: Current Knowledge and Future Research Needs

“…With a similar line of inquiry, Ref. [15] identified how stakeholders think about potential markets that may bring employment and other income generation activities to the Cross-Timbers. The authors found that abundant natural resources and associated ecosystem services may provide opportunities for non-traditional markets in the region.…”

“…Despite its ecological significance and importance to people living within the region, there is little information about the dynamics of the mostly privately-owned Cross-Timbers forests and the social factors that motivate individual owners for its management. Approximately of 90% of forest land across Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas is privately owned with the 10% of public ownership predominantly in National Forest lands east of the Cross-Timbers region [15]. Given that corporate ownership of forest lands in Texas and Oklahoma (~20% of total forest land) is focused in the more productive, pine growing regions east of the Cross-timbers, the private ownership in the Cross-Timbers is heavily dominated by small, family forest landowners [16].…”

“…Therefore, management needs and logistics of the Cross-Timbers are different from many other forested regions. As such, important challenges related to the Cross-Timbers' management are to explore alternative market opportunities [7,15] and to understand social factors to facilitate sustainable management of the Cross-Timbers and the valuable ecosystem services it provides. Therefore, the main objectives of this review are to (1) give a brief history of the Cross-Timbers to provide context regarding the historical ecosystem services relative to their current degraded condition, (2) discuss the current state of the Cross-Timbers' management related to sustaining ecosystem services, and (3) identify some potential research topics and directions needed to better manage the Cross-Timbers for ecosystem services.…”

Intentions of Landowners towards Active Management of Ecosystem for Deer Habitat

“…Access to resources could create opportunities and motivate landowners to actively manage their land to improve the quality of forests, rangeland, and deer habitat. Landowners in this region cited the uncertainty of the timber market, lack of interest from manufacturers, and low-quality resources as a hindrance to the market (Starr et al, 2019b) which could be a further indication of a lack of resources and opportunities.…”

Voluntary use of social media for formal learning : an investigation of using self-regulated learning strategies from the social cognitive perspective

“…Research has also suggested that respondents have various preferences for different modes of survey data collection (Hox et al, 2015). Thus, the mixed-mode survey has been increasingly used in many studies to achieve good response rates (e.g., Bradley & Sankar, 2003;Natalie et al, 2018;Starr et al, 2019).…”