Given that the federal estate is worth trillions of dollars, Obama should make land management agencies turn a profit.
This soil information is commonly undervalued and underused, because it is usually not in a user-friendly format that non-soil specialists who generally make land management decisions can readily apply, nor are soil specialists always immediately available to conduct the interpretation required.
This study set out to understand (1) what sources of information agricultural producers rely on when making land-management decisions; (2) the characteristics of their advice networks; and (3) how the advice network linked spatially to water quality on the landscape.
Much of the Axe is under national and county landscape designations, making land use or management measures taken to achieve river status sensitive to these designations.
The owners take land management responsibility in return for federal support and the land becomes part of the national reserve system, of which IPAs now make up about 43%.
Our findings demonstrate the importance of using multiple indicators to evaluate growth management and land protection policy tools for making land use planning decisions.
An understanding of SOC stocks and changes at the national and regional scale is necessary to further our understanding of the global C cycle, to assess the responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change and to aid policy makers in making land use/management decisions.
