Andrew Seidl
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Conservation easements are a primary public policy tool to encourage stewardship of public benefits from private lands. The landowner can receive compensation for entering into an easement agreement up to the amount of economic loss suffered due to the restriction, also known as opportunity cost. Conservation programs will be more attractive to landowners if they can capture a greater share of the public good generated through the easement rather...
4) Summarizing the community economics of community forestry: Wallowa resources, Wallowa County, Oregon
Author
Series
Economic development report volume EDR07-3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Author
Series
REDI report volume 2020, October
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The policy and institutional milieu surrounding private lands conservation using conservation easements in Colorado is complex and can involve local, state, and federal agencies, for profit and not-for-profit service providers and organizations, as well as landowners. Here, we focus on state level taxpayer supported programs, but our alternatives are informed by the variety of compensatory programs and mechanisms in Colorado and elsewhere.
13) Economic impact of future federal conservation easement investments on (rural) Colorado communities
Author
Series
REDI report volume 2020, June
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
This policy brief aims to increase understanding of expenditure patterns and economic impacts stemming from $88.9 million federal agricultural conservation easement program payments to the state of Colorado. An anticipated $195 million in generated economic activity and more than 1,200 jobs from federal agricultural conservation easement payments is a sizable and important contribution to the state. Anticipated easement payments will provide an...
17) A social benefit cost framework to analyze the community economics of community forestry: summary
Author
Series
Economic development report volume EDR07-5
Pub. Date
[2007]