This paper analyzes Colorado Corn producers’ preferences over both private- and environmental public-good production system attributes. Current production practices are characterized by intensive water and chemical use, resulting in non-point source pollution to water bodies as well as soil...

The paradigm of adaptive natural resource management (AM), in which experiments are used to learn about uncertain aspects of natural systems, is gaining prominence as the preferred technique for administration of large-scale environmental projects. To date, however, tools consistent with...

This paper analyzes donation strategies of agricultural PACs by examining and testing a variety of variables theoretically related to contributions and formally testing for equivalence of donation strategies across PACs of varying levels of aggregation. Both chambers of the 108th Congress were...

"This paper illustrates the use of dual/adaptive control methods to compare passive and active adaptive management decisions in the context of an ecosystem with a threshold effect. Using discrete-time dynamic programming techniques, we model optimal phosphorus loadings under both uncertainty...

Risk and reliability dominate water supply discussions in the arid western United States in light of increasing demand and finite, weather-dependant supply. Thus water agencies increasingly turn to contractual mechanisms such as dry-year options to manage supply risk in advance of need. Although...

Cow-calf and sheep enterprise inputs, production, costs, and returns are estimated for ranches with Forest Service grazing permits using 1982 as a base year. Budgets represent different cow and sheep herd sizes in National Forests and national Grasslands of United States.

Cow-calf and sheep enterprise inputs, production, costs, and returns are estimated for ranches with Bureau of Land Management grazing permits using 1982 as a base year. Budgets represent different cow and sheep herd sizes in grazing areas of the western United States.