Water Quality Monitoring Report - 2005-2009 Monitoring of Prairie Pothole Wetlands [PDF]
, 2015 Prior to European settlement, wetland basins covered 4 to 6 million acres, or approximately 11% of Iowa's surface area. Wetlands were part of every watershed in the state, but nearly 95% of them have been drained for agriculture.
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How Farmers Bid Into the Conservation Reserve Program: An Empirical Analysis of CRP Offers Data [PDF]
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/19/11.Land Economics/Use,
Jacobs, Keri L. +2 more
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Native Grassland Conversion: the Roles of Risk Intervention and Switching Costs [PDF]
, 2013 We develop a real option model of the irreversible native grassland conversion decision. Upon plowing, native grassland can be followed by either a permanent cropping system or a system in which land is put under cropping (respectively, grazing) whenever
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LAND VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION [PDF]
Environmental Economics and Policy, Land Economics/Use,
Boehlje, Michael +2 more
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Flowering plants preferred by bees of the Prairie Pothole Region [PDF]
Fact Sheet, 2020 Stacy Simanonok, Clint R. V. Otto
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What's the Use? Welfare Estimates from Revealed Preference Models when Weak Complementarity Does Not Hold [PDF]
In this paper we consider the theoretical and empirical ramifications of welfare measurement in revealed preference models when weak complementarity does not hold.
Herriges, Joseph A. +2 more
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Meta Analysis for Benefits Transfer – Toward Value Estimates for Some Outputs of Multifunctional Agriculture [PDF]
As a contribution to valuing the outputs of multifunctional agriculture, we report three new meta analyses estimating value functions for agricultural conservation program impacts on water quality, wetlands, and upland habitat and open space. As is often
Chen, Ding-Rong +2 more
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Bird Population Changes Following the Establishment of a Diverse Stand of Woody Plants in a Former Crop Field in North Dakota, 1975– 2015 [PDF]
, 2018 Changes in the coverage of trees and shrubs on the North Dakota landscape since Euro- American settlement have likely had a pronounced impact on bird species that favor woody vegetation.
Igl, Lawrence D. +2 more
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Alternative Approaches to Incorporating the Opportunity Cost of Time in Recreation Demand Models [PDF]
The importance of accounting for a respondent’s travel time in recreation demand models is well established. In practice, most analysts use a fixed fraction of the respondent’s wage rate to value travel time. However, other approaches have been suggested
Christopher Azevedo, John R. Crooker
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Secretive Marsh Bird Species Co-Occurrences and Habitat Associations Across the Midwest, USA [PDF]
, 2011 Because secretive marsh birds are difficult to detect, population status and habitat use for these birds are not well known. We conducted repeated surveys for secretive marsh birds across 264 sites in the Upper Mississippi River and Great Lakes Joint ...
Bolenbaugh, Jason R. +2 more
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