Connecting People and Science

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Cooperative State Research, Education
Extension Service

• Connecting People and Science

A Research Agenda Relevant to Agricultural Land
Preservation Efforts Issues Germane to the
Western U.S. and Elsewhere Donald
McLeod University of Wyoming CSREES/USDA
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Agenda Overview

• Baseline/Current Trends
• Measuring Amenities
• Establishing Priorities
• Examples from the West
• Institutional Capacity
• Research and Policy Tasks

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Agricultural Lands and Multifunctionality

• Provision of Valued Characteristics from
  Undeveloped Farmland Besides Food and Fiber..
• Working Landscapes
• Recreation
• Environmental Services
• Aesthetics

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Baseline/Current Trends?

• Existing Policy and Land Use Plans
• Indicators of Growth
• Projections (Trends)

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Majority of Wyoming Population Growth in Rural
Areas Outside Incorporated Places
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Measuring Land Types?

• Availability of Spatial Data
• Compatibility of Spatial Data

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Increase in Residential DevelopmentAcres for
Wyoming 1960-90
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Amenity PreservationEstablishing Priorities?

• Amenity Valuation Techniques?
• Values Transferable Across Locations?
• Identifying Important Tradeoffs?

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Wildland Fire Managementin the West

• Amenity Seekers Moving to the Fire
  Hazard?
• Least Cost Management of Fire Hazard?

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Wildlife/Human Conflictsin the West

• Ranchette Impacts on Wildlife?
• Wildlife Management Hampered?
• Reduction of Farm Tourism Revenue?

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Access to WesternPublic Natural Resources

• Recreational Access to Public Lands?
• Public Grazing Access and Private
  Ranchland?
• Energy Development and Farmland Amenities?

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Water Conflicts

• Water Quality Residential, Energy,
  Agriculture?
• Water Scarcity Impacts on Amenities/Farmland
  Management?

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General Institutional Capacity

• Coordination of Public and Private
  Efforts?
• Universities?
• Cooperative Extension System?
• Resource Conservation Districts?

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The (Research) Task at Hand?

• Overlap in Ecosystem Functions and Location?
• Consequences of Land Use Change?
• Improved Spatial Measures and Analysis?
• Preservation Conservation Benefits Estimation
  and Tradeoffs?
• Development Projections and Opportunity Cost of
  Resource Management?

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The (Policy) Task at Hand?

• Public/Private Partnerships in Program
  Provision?
• Who Pays/Gets Paid and How?
• Public Education?