Abstract
This brief reports the results of a mail survey of forest landowners in northeastern Oregon conducted in the fall of 2012 by the Communities and Forests in Oregon (CAFOR) Project at the University of Colorado and the University of New Hampshire in cooperation with Oregon State University College of Forestry Extension. The mail survey--a follow-up to a telephone survey conducted for the counties of Baker, Union, and Wallowa in the fall of 2011 -was administered to understand who constituted forest landowners in these three coun¬ties and their perceptions about forest management on both public and private land, as well as risks to forests in the area and the actions they have taken to reduce those risks. The respondents indicated that they perceive wildfire as the greatest threat to their lands, and they consider cooperation with neighbors as very or extremely important for land management. Forest landowners believe public lands are managed poorly and see a greater risk of wildfire occurring on neighboring public land than on their own land. Their opinions on land management are not strongly related to background factors or ideology (for example, gender, age, political party, wealth) but may be heavily influenced by personal experience with wildfire.
Publication Date
4-8-2014
Series
National Issue Brief No. 70
Publisher
Durham, N.H. : Carsey Institute, University of New Hampshire
Document Type
Article
Recommended Citation
Hartter, Joel N.; Stevens, Forrest R.; Hamilton, Lawrence C.; Oester, Paul T.; Congalton, Russell G.; Ducey, Mark J.; and Crowley, Morgan A., "Forest management and wildfire risk in inland northwest" (2014). Carsey School of Public Policy. 211.
https://scholars.unh.edu/carsey/211
Rights
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DOI
https://dx.doi.org/10.34051/p/2020.211