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- Title
Challenges and Motivations behind Sustaining a Volunteer-Based Forest Management Organization: A Case `Study of the Southeastern Illinois Prescribed Burn Association.
- Authors
Riechman, Jesse A.; Park, Logan O.; Ruffner, Charles M.; Groninger, John W.
- Abstract
Fire frequency far below historic norms is threatening eastern oak ecosystem integrity. Increasingly, private family forest landowners are interested in using prescribed fire as a tool for maintaining oak dominance and associated wildlife habitat and wildfire protection. The Southeastern Illinois Prescribed Burn Association (SIPBA) empowers landowners to apply prescribed burning as a management tool. Prescribed fire use is consistent with the established land ethic expressed by members and serves as a means of modeling the practice for non member neighbors. SIPRA members regard dependence on outside funding as a limit to both the capacity and, potentially, the sustainability of this novel cooperative land management organization.
- Subjects
ILLINOIS; SUSTAINABILITY; ECOSYSTEM management; HABITATS; FORESTS &; forestry; LAND management; SOCIETIES
- Publication
Journal of Forestry, 2014, Vol 112, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0022-1201
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5849/jof.12-110