Engaging African American landowners in sustainable forest management
Engaging African American landowners in sustainable forest management
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让非裔美国土地所有者参与可持续森林管理
DOI：
10.5849/jof.15-116
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
A. Diop
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文献类型：
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作者：
J. Schelhas;Sarah Hitchner;C. Gaither;R. Fraser;Viniece Jennings;A. Diop
可持续林业和非裔美国人土地保留方案是一项全面的努力，旨在解决非洲裔美国人长期参与森林管理的不足问题。我们在南方三个州对这一项目的试点项目进行了快速评估基线研究，使用精心挑选的有目的的样本，以增强我们对少数族裔土地所有权和森林管理的理解。我们发现，虽然土地代表着代代相传的重要家庭资源，但继承人的财产状况往往导致财产所有权不稳定，大多数家庭从土地中获得的经济回报很少或没有。林分往往是自然更新的松林，如果所有者要从林业中获得经济利益，就需要进行疏伐、焚烧，甚至完成采伐和重新种植。林业可以帮助家庭保留土地和建立资产，尽管我们研究中包括的大多数非裔美国土地所有者指出，他们之前与林业的接触仅限于机会主义的木材销售。土地所有者对今后参与林业活动和管理野生动物表示了广泛的兴趣。我们与土地所有者的访谈表明，以社区为基础的试点项目正在土地所有者和林农之间建立联系，以鼓励可持续的森林管理和保留非裔美国人家庭土地。
The Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program is a comprehensive effort to address the long-standing problem of underparticipation of African Americans in forest management. We conducted rapid appraisal baseline research for pilot projects in this program in three Southern states using a carefully selected purposive sample to enhance our understanding of minority landownership and forest management. We found that whereas land represents an important family resource across generations, heirs’ property status often results in insecure property ownership, and most families receive little or no economic return from their land. Forest stands tended to be naturally regenerated pine forests that require thinning, burning, or even complete harvest and replanting if owners are to benefit economically from forestry. Forestry can help families retain land and build assets, although most of the African American landowners included in our study noted that their previous engagement with forestry has been limited to opportunistic timber sales. Landowners expressed broad interest in future engagement in forestry activities and managing for wildlife. Our interview with landowners revealed that the community-based pilot projects were building links among landowners and foresters to encourage sustainable forest management and retention of African American family land.