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Adoption of conservation practices by agricultural landowners in three Oregon watersheds

G.B. Habron
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation May 2004, 59 (3) 109-115;
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A community-based adaptive management framework is applied to the Calapooya Creek, Deer Creek, and Myrtle Creek watersheds within the Umpqua River Basin in Southwestern Oregon. The objectives are to: 1) identify agricultural landowner participation in watershed conservation projects, and 2) determine the characteristics of participating and nonparticipating landowners. Data are derived from a 1998 landowner mail survey with a 53% response rate. Landowners implement upland conservation practices such as off-stream livestock water developments and rotational grazing more often than riparian fencing, riparian tree planting, and installing fish screens on irrigation diversions. The key factors in adoption of conservation practices include the use of irrigation, shared management decisions with a spouse, a belief in scientific experimentation, and discussion of conservation with others. The key factors predicting adoption of best management practices depended on the kind of best management practice implemented.

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  • Geoffrey B. Habron is an assistant professor in the Department of Fisheries and Wildife and Department of Sociology at Michigan State university in East Lansing, Michigan.

  • Copyright 2004 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

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