This paper explores current use valuation programs as one tool for
conserving and fostering sustainable management of southern U.S.
forests under private ownership. The brief identifies key constraints
on existing programs and suggests measures that could be
implemented to enhance program effectiveness.
These tables serve as a reference document containing the key design elements of nutrient trading programs in four Chesapeake Bay states: Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
The issue brief provides an overview of how businesses and water utilities in the United States and Latin America are pursuing upstream forest conservation as a cost-effective means of ensuring clean water supplies. It also suggests how many of these approaches could be applicable in the southern United States.
In the Southern United States, the watersheds with the greatest ability to produce
clean water and with the most consumers tend to be the
forested watersheds of the east (top).
Many payments for watershed services share a common
trait: they are investments in “green infrastructure”
instead of “gray infrastructure.” In other words, they are investments
in forests i
This issue brief provides an overview of incentives, markets, and practices that can promote conservation and sustainable management in the forests of the southern United States.
In December 2010, over 50 U.S. natural resource practitioners and experts joined the Northern Forests Watershed Incentive Project’s second annual webinar, which provided an overview of the project and covered successes to date.
This series of issue briefs explores incentives for ensuring that southern U.S. forests continue to supply the timber, water, recreation, and other benefits—known as “ecosystem services”—that people depend upon.
