SARE Progress Reports

Progress Reports to funding agency are linked to SARE project page. Progress Reports

Summary of Survey Results
In 2004 and 2005, landowners in the study counties were surveyed through in-person interviews in North Carolina and a booklet mailed to over 1000 landowners in NC and Virginia.   We appreciate the hard work of our interviewers from each of the study counties.   Summary of Survey Results

Conference Presentations

Atmadja, Nia and E. Sills. 2005. Constraints and Consequences: The Effects of
....... Capital Constraints on Forest Management. presented at the Southern
....... Forest Economics Workshop, Baton Rouge, LA, April.   Abstract.

Mance, K., E. Sills, and S. Warren. 2004. Outreach to Limited Resource Forest
....... Landowners: Extension Innovation for Low Literacy Audiences. Human
....... Dimensions of Family, Farm, and Community Forestry.   D. Baumgartner,
....... ed., Pullman, WA.  Proceedings.

Sills, Erin, S. Atmadja, S. Warren, and R. Estevez, 2004. Sustaining Diversity:
....... Limited-resource Forest Landowners in the Southern United States.  
....... Presented at the IUFRO Conference on Human Dimensions Family and
....... Farm Forestry, Pullman, WA, March.   Abstract.

Estevez, Rafael. 2004. Choosing, Producing, and Cashing in with Christmas
....... Trees. Poster presented at NCSU Undergraduate Research Symposium,
....... Raleigh, NC, August.   Poster.

Warren, Sarah, R. Williamson, and E. Sills. 2002. Minority Landholders and
....... Working Forests in the South, Proceedings of the Society of American
....... Foresters Convention. Winston-Salem, NC.   Proceedings.

Warren, S.T., E.O. Sills, and N. Dawson, 2002. Turning Every Stone: Identifying
....... limited resource, traditionally under- served forest landowners in North
....... Carolina and Virginia.   Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Rural
....... Sociological Society, Chicago, August.   Abstract.

Warren, S.T., E. Sills, and N. Dawson. 2002.   Sustaining ecological and
....... economic diversity among limited resource landholders by expanding
....... opportunities for management of productive woodlands.   Poster presented
....... at SARE Conference On the Road to Sustainable Agriculture, Raleigh, NC,
....... October.

Case Study Landowners
Many thanks to Cynthia Brown in Northampton County and Arthur Best in Duplin County.   They helped with research and with outreach events.

SARE Powerpoint Slide Show
On April 22 of 2002, a powerpoint presentation was made as part of the NCSU Department of Forestry seminar series. Powerpoint Slide Show

SARE Focus Groups
On Tuesday, January 22, 2003, a focus group was held at the Lumbee Regional Development Association (LRDA) in Robeson County. Eight landholders from Robeson shared their opinions and concerns about management of woodlands in the county.

 

In July 2002, we held a focus group at Concerned Citizens of Tillery in Halifax County. Many thanks to the landowners for their input and suggestions!