 Changes in Land Use, Forest Ownership, Parcel Size, and Fragmentation in Forests of the U.S. SouthJesse Caputo, Brett Butler, Thomas Brandeis and Kurt Riitters No 347717, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture Abstract: Using U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data, we examined changes in land use, ownership, parcel size, and parcel level in the U.S. South. Over a nominal 10-year period (2001 to 2011), 93.8 percent of the acreage did not change land use. Forest was the most common type and there was a small net gain of forested acreage. Of the forested acreage, 85.4 percent did not change ownership type. Families were the most common ownership type, and there was a small net loss of family-owned lands—primarily to corporate ownerships. Of family-owned forest acreage, 7.6 percent consisted of parcels that reduced in size by more than 100 acres, and 17.5 percent consisted of parcels that decreased in forest area density (i.e., became more fragmented). Increases in forest area density were more prevalent than fragmentation. In all States other than Arkansas, family forest acreage became on average more parcellated and less fragmented. Keywords: Community/Rural/Urban Development; Land Economics/Use; Research Methods/Statistical Methods; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:usdami:347717 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture |
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