After being subject to several decades of degradation, the bottomland hardwood (BLH) forests within the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley have undergone landscape-scale restoration regimes through conservation easement programs, such as the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). Reforested easements offer an opportunity for landowners' adoption of forest management practices to fulfill the program's long-term conservation goals. Using the contingent valuation approach, we examine easement landowners' willingness to accept (WTA) to thin their forest subject to an easement to enhance forest health and wildlife habitat quality, and we test the effect of providing information about the benefits of thinning on WTA estimates. Results from an interval regression model suggest that ownership characteristics like years of ownership, involvement in non-timber activities like hiking and walking, and management characteristics like having past intention to thin, significantly decreased WTA while being an original easement grantor and ownership objectives like legacy increased WTA. The mean monetary compensation required to induce thinning adoption is $11.41 per ton of pulpwood. There is some evidence that the information intervention influences the WTA estimates downward, representing a potential policy instrument to achieve thinning objectives in the conservation easements efficiently.

在经历了几十年的退化之后，下密西西比河冲积谷内的低地阔叶林 (BLH) 森林通过保护性地役权计划（例如湿地保护区计划 (WRP)）经历了景观规模的恢复制度。重新造林地役权为土地所有者采用森林管理实践来实现该计划的长期保护目标提供了机会。使用条件估值方法，我们检查地役权土地所有者愿意接受 (WTA) 在地役权范围内对森林进行间伐以提高森林健康和野生动物栖息地质量，并测试提供有关间伐收益的信息对 WTA 估计值的影响. 区间回归模型的结果表明，所有权特征如所有权年数、参与远足和步行等非木材活动，以及过去有意瘦身等管理特征，显着降低了 WTA，同时作为原始地役权授予者和所有权目标，如遗产增加了 WTA。诱导采用间伐所需的平均货币补偿为每吨纸浆木材 11.41 美元。有证据表明，信息干预会向下影响 WTA 的估计，这代表了有效实现保护地役权中细化目标的潜在政策工具。诱导采用间伐所需的平均货币补偿为每吨纸浆木材 11.41 美元。有证据表明，信息干预会向下影响 WTA 的估计，这代表了有效实现保护地役权中细化目标的潜在政策工具。诱导采用间伐所需的平均货币补偿为每吨纸浆木材 11.41 美元。有证据表明，信息干预会向下影响 WTA 的估计，这代表了有效实现保护地役权中细化目标的潜在政策工具。