ABSTRACT:
Erosion control policies designed to maintain soil productivity and improve water quality tend to enhance upland wildlife habitat quality with varying degrees of effectiveness. Habitat indexing and valuation procedures are considered in conjunction with a linear programming model of the Iowa River Basin to illustrate these effects.
Footnotes
John A. Miranowski, an associate professor in the Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, was on leave as a Gilbert White Visiting Fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C. 20036, when this paper was written. Ruth Lorson Bender is a research assistant in the Department of Economics. Iowa State University. The authors acknowledge the helpful comments by William R. Clark on an earlier version of this article.
- Copyright 1982 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society
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