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SOCIO-3: Policies, Regulations, and Laws

1 Key Findings

1.1 Federal Income Tax Incentives

1.2 Federal Estate Tax

1.3 Cost Sharing Programs

1.4 Current-Use Property Valuation

1.5 Conservation Easements

1.6 Protective Regulatory Policies

1.7 Local Ordinances

1.8 Private Property Rights and Right to Practice Acts

2 Introduction

3 Federal Income Tax Incentives

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Methods

3.3 Data Sources

3.4 Results

3.5 Discussion and Conclusions

3.6 Needs for Additional Research

3.7 Acknowledgments

4 The Federal Estate Tax

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Methods

4.3 Response Rates

4.4 Results

4.5 Discussion and Conclusions

4.6 Needs for Additional Research

4.7 Acknowledgments

5 Federal and State Forestry Cost-Sharing Programs

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Methods and Data Sources

5.3 Results

5.4 Discussion and Conclusions

5.5 Future Research Needs

5.6 Acknowledgements

6 Current-Use Property Valuation

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Methods

6.3 Results

6.4 Discussion and Conclusions

6.5 Needs for Additional Research

7 Conservation Easements

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Methods and Data Sources

7.3 Results

7.4 Discussion and Conclusions

7.5 Needs for Additional Research

7.6 Acknowledgments

8 Protective Regulatory Policies

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Methods and Data Sources

8.3 Results

8.4 Acknowledgments

9 Local Forest-Related Ordinances

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Methods

9.3 Data Sources

9.4 Results

9.5 Discussion and Conclusions

9.6 Needs for Additional Research

9.7 Acknowledgments

10 Private Property Rights and Right to Practice Forestry Acts in the South

10.1 Introduction

10.2 Methods and Data Sources

10.3 Results

10.4 Implications

10.5 Acknowledgements

11 Literature Cited

12 Endnotes

13 Tables and Figures

Table 1--Comparison of federal income tax incentives

Table 2--Features and accomplishments of State forestry cost-sharing programs

Table 3--Funding and accomplishments of State forestry cost-sharing programs

Table 4--State and Year Use Value Law Enacted

Table 5--Conservation easements on forestland granted to private land trusts

Table 6--Number of forest-related local ordinances by State

Table 7--Number of forest-related ordinances enacted by type, 1992 and 2000

Table 8--Private property rights protection and right to practice forestry laws, dates proposed and enacted

Figure 1--State-level cost-sharing programs to improve timber production on NIPF lands, dates enacted

Figure 2--Land uses converted to developed land