Replacing Private Forest Investment With Federal Incentives Programs
Investigators:
Karen Lee Abt
, Southern Research Station
Ralph J. Alig, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, USDA Forest Service
Fred Kaiser, Washington Office Staff, USDA Forest Service
Description:
The federal government provides financial incentives to nonindustrial private landowners to encourage tree planting on converted agricultural land and on harvested forest land. At issue is whether the tree planting would have been done, and paid for, by private landowners if the government did not provide incentives. This analysis showed that additional tree planting did occur because of federal programs, and thus private investment was not crowded out by government investment.
Problem Area(s):
Objectives and behavior
Status:
Completed
Products:
Lee, Karen J., Kaiser, Fred; Alig, Ralph J. 1992. Substitution of public for private funding in planting southern pine. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 16(4):204-208.
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modified:
13-MAR-2000
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USDA FS SRS
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