The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is arguably the world's largest conservation program on private lands, with $1.8 billion paid to farmers in 2017 for practices on 23.4 million acres. Existing theory and literature suggest that a modified auction structure could make CRP more...

Conserving contiguous areas often enhances environmental benefits. However, most conservation efforts are incentive-based and voluntary, and neither reward landowners for contiguity nor do they select based on contiguity. Thus, achieving optimal contiguity of conserved parcels is unlikely. Using...