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Predicting Pasture and Forest Landowner Intention to Create Early Successional Habitat
Journal of Wildlife Management ( IF 2.3 ) Pub Date : 2021-08-06 , DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22109
Hannah M. Meister 1 , Rene X. Valdez 2 , Dustin Martin 2 , Lesley P. Bulluck 1
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As human land uses expand across the landscape, the management practices of private landowners are an essential part of effective conservation. Early successional habitats (ESH) and the species that depend on them are a priority in the eastern United States, and efforts to create ESH on private lands has primarily focused on forest landowners and timber harvests. Private pasture lands in a forested landscape present an additional opportunity to create and maintain ESH, yet our understanding of landowner values and attitudes about management strategies in pastures is lacking. To address this, we surveyed private landowners in 5 Virginia counties who own ≥10.1 ha at >610 m elevation (n = 503). Our primary objective was to understand how a variety of factors such as landowner values, past experience with habitat management, and perceived barriers to carrying out habitat management are associated with private landowner intention to carry out 7 ESH management strategies (i.e., reduced mowing, reduced grazing, timber harvests within forest, timber harvests at a field-forest border, prescribed fire, use of machinery, and use of herbicides to control invasive species) for the benefit of wildlife in the next 5 years. We used boosted regression trees to determine which factors best predicted the intention to carry out each management strategy. We were able to predict accuracy >75% of the time for landowner intention to engage in open pasture and timber management strategies. Landowner values were not consistent across the different management strategies; landowners likely to reduce mowing or grazing valued ecological aspects of their land (e.g., pollinator habitat, water quality), whereas landowners likely to harvest timber valued hunting and revenue. Past experience with wildlife management was the strongest predictor of likelihood to reduce mowing and grazing. Our results suggest that expanding outreach efforts to include pasture management options would engage a broader set of landowners in creating ESH, especially if such efforts highlighted the benefits to pollinator species, water quality, and enhanced opportunities for hunting and other types of recreation. © 2021 The Wildlife Society.

中文翻译:

预测牧场和林地所有者创建早期演替栖息地的意图

随着人类土地利用在整个景观中的扩展,私人土地所有者的管理实践是有效保护的重要组成部分。早期演替栖息地 (ESH) 和依赖它们的物种是美国东部的优先事项,在私人土地上创造 ESH 的努力主要集中在林地所有者和木材采伐上。森林景观中的私人牧场为创造和维护 ESH 提供了额外的机会,但我们缺乏对土地所有者价值观和牧场管理策略态度的理解。为了解决这个问题,我们调查了弗吉尼亚州 5 个县的私人土地所有者,他们在海拔 >610 m 处拥有 10.1 公顷以上的土地 ( n = 503)。我们的主要目标是了解土地所有者的价值观、过去的栖息地管理经验以及实施栖息地管理的感知障碍等各种因素如何与私人土地所有者实施 7 项 ESH 管理策略(即减少割草、减少放牧、森林中的木材采伐、森林边界的木材采伐、规定的火灾、机械的使用以及使用除草剂来控制入侵物种),以在未来 5 年内造福野生动物。我们使用增强回归树来确定哪些因素最能预测执行每个管理策略的意图。我们能够在超过 75% 的时间内预测土地所有者有意参与开放牧场和木材管理策略的准确性。不同管理策略的土地所有者价值观不一致;可能减少割草或放牧的土地所有者重视其土地的生态方面(例如传粉者栖息地、水质),而可能采伐木材的土地所有者重视狩猎和收入。过去在野生动物管理方面的经验是减少割草和放牧的最有力的预测因素。我们的结果表明,扩大外展工作以包括牧场管理选项将使更广泛的土地所有者参与创建 ESH,特别是如果此类努力突出了对传粉媒介物种、水质以及狩猎和其他类型娱乐机会的增加的好处。© 2021 野生动物协会。传粉者栖息地、水质),而可能采伐木材的土地所有者则重视狩猎和收入。过去在野生动物管理方面的经验是减少割草和放牧的最有力的预测因素。我们的结果表明,扩大外展工作以包括牧场管理选项将使更广泛的土地所有者参与创建 ESH,特别是如果此类努力突出了对传粉媒介物种、水质以及狩猎和其他类型娱乐机会的增加的好处。© 2021 野生动物协会。传粉者栖息地、水质),而可能采伐木材的土地所有者则重视狩猎和收入。过去在野生动物管理方面的经验是减少割草和放牧可能性的最有力的预测因素。我们的结果表明,扩大外展工作以包括牧场管理选项将使更广泛的土地所有者参与创建 ESH,特别是如果此类努力突出了对传粉媒介物种、水质以及狩猎和其他类型娱乐机会的增加的好处。© 2021 野生动物协会。我们的结果表明,扩大外展工作以包括牧场管理选项将使更广泛的土地所有者参与创建 ESH,特别是如果此类努力突出了对传粉媒介物种、水质以及狩猎和其他类型娱乐机会的增加的好处。© 2021 野生动物协会。我们的结果表明,扩大外展工作以包括牧场管理选项将使更广泛的土地所有者参与创建 ESH,特别是如果此类努力突出了对传粉媒介物种、水质以及狩猎和其他类型娱乐机会的增加的好处。© 2021 野生动物协会。
更新日期:2021-10-11
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