Using real estate records to assess forest land parcelization and development: A Minnesota case study

Mundell, J.; Taff, Steven J.; Kilgore, Michael A.; Snyder, Stephanie A.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.08.001

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“…Owning larger acreages could be associated with life cycle or cohort effects. It's possible that larger parcels of land were available to older cohorts of landowners, and with the increase in development and parcellation in recent years (Mundell et al 2010;Sanborn-Stone and Tyrrell 2012), only smaller parcels of land are available to younger cohorts, making this a cohort effect. If this is a cohort effect, we would expect the younger cohorts of landowners to maintain smaller acreages of forest land over time.…”

Section: Cohort Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Forest Owner Characteristics Shaped by Life Cycle, Cohort, and Period Effects

Butler

Markowski-Lindsay

2016

Small-scale Forestry

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Understanding differences and similarities among family forest owners is important in the context of forest land conservation. This study assesses similarities and differences in landowners by analyzing life cycle effects, cohort differences, and period-specific events that shape people's attitudes and behaviors towards their forestland over time. Using data collected by the U.S. Forest Service's 2013 National Woodland Owner Survey, bivariate, random forest and classification tree analyses were used to examine landowners in terms of demographic cohorts. Some attitudes and behaviors of family forest owners were identified as being a result of life cycle (e.g., recreating on their wooded land, plans to transfer land in the next 5 years), cohort (e.g., education level, help with programs or policies), and period (e.g., wars, economic depressions changing attitudes or behaviors) effects. While many of the attitudes and behaviors are common across cohorts. Understanding the reasons for similarities and differences among landowners could help program and policy developers target the appropriate group of people and achieve the highest success rates for policies and programs.Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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Section: Cohort Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Family Forest Owner Characteristics Shaped by Life Cycle, Cohort, and Period Effects

Butler

Markowski-Lindsay

2016

Small-scale Forestry

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“…Parcelization is often considered an indicator for future development in an area (Gobster and Rickenback, 2004;Mundell et al, 2010) and may lead to fragmented animal populations and an inability to manage the forest at a landscape level. Owners of former county-administered forest land were asked whether they had subdivided and sold part of their forest land.…”

Section: Parcelizationmentioning

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Evaluating the impacts of retention and disposal options for Minnesota's county-administered forest land

Brown¹,

Kilgore²,

Hibbard³

2010

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…family forest owners (Schwarzbauer et al 2010, 32-36). In the U.S., family forest owners constitute about 40% of the total forest area, the average size of holdings is also around 10 hectares (Butler andLeatherberry 2004, Butler 2008) and parcelization and consolidation coexist similarly as in Finland (Zhang et al 2005, Mundell et al 2010. In terms of numbers of forest owners as well as size-class distributions, small scale forest holdings dominate in both continents, and their number is increasing.…”

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“…In order to carry out efficient land policy, it is useful to recognize also the opposite phenomenon of parcelization, the enlargement of forest hold-ings. Mundell et al (2010), for example, found that more than 50% of the sales on larger acreage parcels in a Minnesota county were actually consolidations whereby the adjacent landowner was the buyer of these tracts. Zhang et al (2009) outlined generally that optimal landholding size for a family forest owner is the holding size for which marginal value is equal to marginal cost (market price of forestland plus holding costs, including taxes, management costs and risk).…”

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Factors affecting enlargement of family forest holdings

Suuriniemi¹,

Matero²,

Hänninen³

et al. 2012

Silva Fenn.

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This study contributes to the research of enlargement -a counterforce of parcelization -of forest holdings. To help planning policy measures aiming at increased average size of forest holdings, we study the characteristics of family forest owners who acquired additional forestland area during the years [2004][2005][2006][2007][2008]. Increases of forestland area due to purchases on the open market, purchases from parents or other relatives, inheritance or gift are studied. Survey data, containing information of 6318 forest owners, are analyzed with logistic regression analysis in order to establish a relationship between the probability of increasing the forestland area and the characteristics of landowners. The results indicate that young male owners, who appreciate economic values of the ownership and are active users of their forest estates, most often expand their forest property. This can be considered as an encouraging result from the point of view of the political objective to boost forest management activity through enlarging family forest holdings.

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Using real estate records to assess forest land parcelization and development: A Minnesota case study

Cited by 29 publications

References 17 publications

Family Forest Owner Characteristics Shaped by Life Cycle, Cohort, and Period Effects

Family Forest Owner Characteristics Shaped by Life Cycle, Cohort, and Period Effects

Evaluating the impacts of retention and disposal options for Minnesota's county-administered forest land

Factors affecting enlargement of family forest holdings

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