Sustainable forest management is a universally desired goal to provide ecological, economic, and social benefits. Sustaining forest benefits across the landscape in Arkansas depends on nonindustrial private forest landowners (NIPF) who own 58% of forestland in the state. Forest certification is an effective “market based” mechanism for improving forest management to achieve sustainability. A mixture of mail and online surveys collected data on Arkansas NIPF landowners' demographic and forestland characteristics, ownership motivations, and attitudes regarding perceived benefits and drawbacks of forest certification. A binary logistic regression model revealed that age, gender, education, timber harvest intentions, motivations for owning forestland, and perspectives regarding the potential benefits of forest certification influenced landowners' awareness and interests in forest certification. These findings provide insight into NIPF landowners' attitudes in participating in a forest certification program. The findings are useful for developing outreach and education programs promoting NIPF landowners' participation in forest certification in Arkansas and other southern states.

可持续森林管理是提供生态、经济和社会效益的普遍期望目标。维持阿肯色州整个景观的森林效益取决于拥有该州 58% 林地的非工业私人林地所有者 (NIPF)。森林认证是一种有效的“基于市场”的机制，用于改善森林管理以实现可持续性。邮件和在线调查的混合收集了有关阿肯色州 NIPF 土地所有者的人口统计和林地特征、所有权动机以及对森林认证的感知利弊的态度的数据。二元逻辑回归模型显示年龄、性别、教育、木材采伐意图、拥有林地的动机、关于森林认证的潜在利益的观点影响了土地所有者对森林认证的认识和兴趣。这些发现让我们深入了解 NIPF 土地所有者在参与森林认证计划时的态度。研究结果有助于制定推广和教育计划，促进 NIPF 土地所有者参与阿肯色州和其他南部各州的森林认证。