It's a Neighborhood Now: Practicing Forestry at the Urban Fringe
Journal, Research (Article)
"Increasing land fragmentation, regulations, and neighbors concerns pose significant challenges to forest owners at the urban fringe. Using Oregons Soap Creek Watershed as a study site, we paired qualitative and quantitative methods to identify stakeholders, their opinions about forestry, and options for reducing conflict. Findings indicate that: (1) stakeholders viewed actively managed forests as preferable to further residential development, (2) residents held corporate and public forest managers to higher communication and management standards than individual private managers, and (3) consistently communicating management intentions and acknowledging neighbors concerns reduced active opposition to forest management."
K.K. Edwards, J.C. Bliss
2004
Journal of Forestry
Society of American Foresters
Bethesda, MD
0022-1201
101//3
6
11
6
Communications, Forest Management, Interface, Perceptions/Values/Attitudes, Public Relations, Fragmentation/Parcelization
Oregon
Interface, WUI, Leaf characteristics