More than half of the United States' forestland is owned by millions of private forest landowners with small parcels. The length of forestland ownerships and its determinants are examined using duration analysis on a sample of parcels in Mississippi from 1999 to 2019. Overall, forestland ownership duration is short. About 46% of all the sampled parcels were sold at least once over the 21 years, and on average, the ownership duration of these sold parcels is only 5.4 years. The median survival time of new ownership in this sample is 12.2 years only. The forested acreage of a parcel, the residence location of an owner, and several socioeconomic variables have influenced land ownership duration.

美国一半以上的林地归数百万私人林地所有者所有，并有小块土地。使用持续时间分析，对密西西比州1999年至2019年的包裹样本进行了持续时间分析，检查了林地所有权的长度及其决定因素。总体而言，林地所有权的持续时间很短。在21年中，约有46％的抽样包裹至少出售了一次，平均而言，这些出售包裹的所有权期限仅为5.4年。在此样本中，新所有权的中位生存时间仅为12.2年。土地上的森林面积，所有者的居住地点以及一些社会经济变量影响了土地所有权的持续时间。