Supplying ecosystem services on US rangelands

DD Briske, SR Archer, E Burchfield, W Burnidge… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Rangelands comprise 40% of the conterminous United States and they supply essential
ecosystem services to society. A scenario assessment was conducted to determine how …

Connecting country and city: The multiple geographies of real property ownership in the US

L Van Sant, T Shelton, K Kay - Geography Compass, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this review, we bridge recent studies on the political economy of urban and rural real
property ownership, focusing on the US. While there are many parallels and interlinkages …

Managing wild emotions: Wildlife managers as intermediaries at the conflictual boundaries of access relations

K Epstein, JH Haggerty - Geoforum, 2022 - Elsevier
This study uses Ribot and Peluso's access analysis to examine conflicts over elk and elk
management in Greater Yellowstone USA, a region where emerging patterns of privatization …

Peopled landscapes: Questions of coexistence in invasive plant management and rewilding

J Atchison, J Pickerill, C Arnold, LM Gibbs… - People and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of 'peopled landscapes' is based on the notion that it is not possible, nor
socially or politically desirable, to remove people from the environment in the era of the …

Taking stock of social sustainability and the uS beef industry

H Gosnell, K Emard, E Hyde - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper presents the results of a study of social sustainability in the US beef industry with
a focus on the pre-harvest, cattle ranching portion of the industry. Using an integrative …

Private land conservation towards large landscape goals: Role of relational values, property rights orientations and perceived efficacy in ranchers' actions

CB Wardropper, RA Graves, J Brandt… - People and …, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Many of the world's iconic, endangered and endemic species rely on large, contiguous
landscapes for their survival. In the US West, working ranches are integral to large …

Rural land concentration & protected areas: Recent trends from Montana and greater Yellowstone

JH Haggerty, K Epstein, H Gosnell… - Society & Natural …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Where agricultural land use and biodiversity conservation values overlap, conservation
science has tended to focus on the challenges posed by land ownership fragmentation …

What is the problem with absentee landowners? Invasive plant management by residential and absentee amenity rural landowners

N Gill, A Lewis, L Chisholm, N Adan - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Landowners interested in rural lifestyles rather than primary production, are a significant
group of rural landowners in many countries. Among these landowners, distinctions are …

Murky waters: divergent ways scientists, practitioners, and landowners evaluate beaver mimicry

T Pfaeffle, MA Moore, AE Cravens, J McEvoy… - 2022 - scholarworks.montana.edu
Beaver mimicry is a fast-growing conservation technique to restore streams and manage
water that is gaining popularity within the natural resource management community because …

Geographies of land ownership change in the rural United States: Challenges, methods, and possibilities

L Shade, L Van Sant - The Professional Geographer, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Both academic and popular sources have recently pointed to important changes in rural
land ownership across the United States: from consolidation and financialization to …