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Sustainable Ecosystems and the Role of Private Landowners in California
Maggi KellyShasta FerrantoLynn Huntsinger
Shasta Ferranto
Title: Private Lands, Public Goods: Engaging Landowners in Ecosystem Management
Some of Shasta’s Publications:Plieninger, Ferranto, Huntsinger, Kelly, and Getz. Appreciation, use, and management of biodiversity and ecosystem services in California’s working landscapes. Environmental Management
Ferranto, Huntsinger, Getz, Stewart, Nakamura, and Kelly. 2012. Consider the source: The impact of media and authority in outreach to California’s forest and rangeland owners. Journal of Environmental Management 97(1): 131‐140
Ferranto, Huntsinger, Getz, Nakamura, Stewart, Drill, Valachovic, DeLasaux and Kelly. Forest and rangeland owners value land for natural amenities, and as financial investment. California Agriculture
Ferranto, Huntsinger, Getz, and Kelly. Out of sight, out of mind? A comparison of absentee, local, and residential landowners in California’s Forest and Rangelands. To be submitted to Landscape and Urban Planning
Graduated from ESPM Summer 2012, and is currently a Presidential Management Fellow working as a Planning & Environmental Analyst for the Bureau of Land Management in Washington, D.C.
3(FRAP Report 2003)
California Forest & Range Lands90 million acres total
– Conifer and Hardwood Forests
– Conifer and Hardwood Woodlands
– Shrubs
– Grasslands
– Desert Shrub and Woodlands
– some Wetlands
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Land Ownership in California
• All California:
50% Private
• Forest & Range:
42% Private
(33.6 million acres)
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Why do we care about Private Land?
• Ecosystem Services
• Habitat for wildlife, and
endangered species
• Biodiversity
• Connectivity: Individual
decisions add up to
cumulative impacts
Why do we care about Private Land?Scott, Standiford, Pratini
(1995). California Agriculture
49(6): 50‐57
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Ecosystem Management
• Management in context of landscape‐scale ecological processes
• Cross‐jurisdictional problem solving and management
• Humans as ecosystem components
(Christensen et al. 1996, Yaffee 1996)77
Cross‐Boundary Cooperation
• Requires voluntary behavior
• Landowners account for the plans and practices of adjacent or nearby properties
• Requires willing landowners
(Bergmann and Bliss 2004, Kittredge 2005, Gass et al. 2009, Rickenbach et al. 2011)
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Research Questions
• Who are these owners? Can we place them in a common typology?
• Management Practices: Can ownership motivations be used to predict landowner behavior?
• Cooperative Extension: Where do landowners get trusted advice?
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Landowner Survey
• Forest & Rangeland
• Parcels > 3 acres
• 10 Counties
• 46% Response Rate
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10 Counties Sampled
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Q1: Landowner Typology
• We used “Market Segmentation”, or cluster analysis techniques
• We are looking for a grouping of landowners that respond similarly to a set of questions
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Cluster Analysis
1313Analyzed in STATA 11.0
Ownership Motivations (17 variables)
4 Factor Score Variables
4 Landowner Groups
Factor Analysis
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
We Found Four Clusters of Landowners
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G4n=2
G5n=4
G6n=6
G7n=6
G8n=2
G9n=3
G10n=4
G11n=5
G12n=4
G13n=8
G14n=3
G15n=8
G16n=8
G17n=16
G18n=8
G19n=5
G20n=8
G21n=7
G22n=3
G23n=2
G24n=2
G25n=2
G26n=6
G27n=2
G28n=4
G29n=3
G30n=2
G31n=11
G32n=12
G33n=8
G34n=5
G35n=9
G36n=7
G37n=4
G38n=11
G39n=11
G40n=9
G41n=4
G42n=11
G43n=6
G44n=4
G45n=6
G46n=5
G47n=3
G48n=7
G49n=7
G50n=4
G51n=3
G52n=2
G53n=2
G54n=2
G55n=2
G56n=4
G57n=6
G58n=4
G59n=4
G60n=5
G61n=3
G62n=4
G63n=3
G64n=5
G65n=5
G66n=5
G67n=6
G68n=8
G69n=13
G70n=8
G71n=10
G72n=11
G73n=7
G74n=6
G75n=7
G76n=6
G77n=5
G78n=6
G79n=2
G80n=3
G81n=5
G82n=3
G83n=4
G84n=6
G85n=2
G86n=9
G87n=4
G88n=5
G89n=3
G90n=7
G91n=6
G92n=6
G93n=5
G94n=2
G95n=3
G96n=3
G97n=4
G98n=2
G99n=3
G100n=2
Dendrogram for wardslink_all13 cluster analysisCluster Dendrogram1. Rural Lifestyle
2. Working Landscape
3. Natural Amenity
4. Financial Investment
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We Investigated Several Management Practices
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Management Practices
Percent Landowners
Differences between groups significant p< 0.05, except when indicated by *
Q2: Cross‐Boundary Cooperation
• 15 part question about cooperation
• Three general topics: Fire Hazard, Wildlife, Insect/Disease Outbreaks
• Possible partners: Neighbors, local agencies, state agencies, federal agencies
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State Agency Federal Agency
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Wildlife Areas and Corridors
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Increasing agreement
Differences between groups and partners significant p< 0.05
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Federal Agency
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Insect & Disease Outbreaks
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Increasing agreement
Differences between groups and partners significant p< 0.05
3.2
3.6
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Neighbor Local PlanningAgency
CalFire Federal Agency
NA
WLRLFI
2020
Increasing agreement
Fire Hazard
Differences between groups and partners significant p< 0.05
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Q3: Landowner Outreach
• Many organizations provide information to landowners
• Goal: What is the extent and impact of current landowner outreach?Inorder to inform future outreach.
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Outreach Providers
• In the last 5 years did you get information about land management from the following organizations?
• If yes, please rate the quality of the advice(5‐point Scale, very low to very high)
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Quality of Advice Varies by Source
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Impact Groups: UCCE is Valued
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Key Findings: Owner Typologies
• Typologies matter: there are differences among landowners in terms of motivation for ownership and land management practices
• Working landscape owners most likely to implement active management
• …except for fire hazard
• Financial Investment least likely to implement active management
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Key Findings: Cross‐boundary cooperation• Landowners are supportive of cross‐boundary cooperation.
• Cooperative efforts may be more successful if:
– implemented at a local level
–with relevant topics
Key Findings: Outreach
• Landowners are interested in advice and willing to pay for it
• Advice can’t be separated from its source –regulatory agencies don’t give “good” advice
• Large property owners receive the most advice
• Information needs to come in multiple formats to reach the most people
Implications for Land Change Science
This kind of work helps us improve our understanding of the complex feedbacks between the societal and environmental components of the integrated land system, and has ramifications for land systems in California
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Acknowledgements• Lead Analysis:
Shasta Ferranto
• Survey Team:Lynn Huntsinger, Christy Getz
• Project Team:Gary Nakamura, Bill Stewart, Sabrina Drill, Yana Valachovic, Mike De Lasaux, Sherry Cooper, Dean Cromwell, Maggi Kelly