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Seth H Lutter¹, Ashley A Dayer², Jeffery L Larkin^3,4

¹Department of Fish & Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. lutter@vt.edu.

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Private landowners are key to conservation. Understanding landowner motivations and program experiences is crucial for sustained conservation management after incentive programs end, especially for young forest habitat initiatives.

Keywords:

Conservation behavior Conservation policy Habitat management Incentives Private landowners

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Conservation science
Wildlife management
Environmental policy

Background:

Private landowners are vital for global conservation efforts.
Incentive programs engage landowners in voluntary conservation, but post-program outcomes are understudied.
Landowner motivations, cognitions, and resources influence continued conservation behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

To assess factors influencing landowner intentions to re-enroll or persist with conservation management after participating in U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) young forest programs.
To test the utility of landowner motivations, cognitions, and resources in explaining continued conservation management.

Main Methods:

Telephone survey of 102 landowners enrolled in NRCS young forest programs in the eastern United States (January-May 2017).
Comparison of multiple regression models to identify variables predicting re-enrollment and management persistence intentions.
Analysis focused on landowner motivations (cost-share, environmental concerns, hunting) and agency trust.

Main Results:

High agency trust and importance of cost-share, environmental concerns, and hunting predicted higher intentions to re-enroll in NRCS programs.
Group landowners, those motivated by environmental concerns, and less by cost-share showed higher intentions for management persistence.
Factors explaining re-enrollment and persistence intentions differed, underscoring the need for separate consideration.

Conclusions:

Fostering trust through positive program experiences is key to sustained young forest management.
Recruiting landowners with aligned motivations and resources can encourage continued conservation efforts.
Conservation programs should consider distinct strategies for re-enrollment versus long-term management persistence.