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Beatty, Alexandra S.; Feder, Michael; Storksdieck, Martin – National Academies Press, 2014
The forested land in the United States is an asset that is owned and managed not only by federal, state, and local governments, but also by families and other private groups, including timber investment management organizations and real estate investment trusts. The more than 10 million family forestland owners manage the largest percentage of…
Descriptors: Climate, Forestry, Ownership, Conservation (Environment)
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Holahan, William L.; Schug, Mark C. – Social Studies, 1997
Describes a classroom exercise designed to illustrate the economic aspects of common ownership, individual ownership, government regulation and to examine how these relate to conservation. The exercise involves the incremental distribution (via a turkey baster) of water between buckets marked "now" and "future." Different rules replicate different…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economics, Economics Education, Free Enterprise System