Abstract
Improving Missouri's forest lands depend on private landowners. Cluster analysis was used to combine nonindustrial private forest landowners with similar interests based on attitudinal information gathered from a mail questionnaire to forest landowners in Macon County, MO. Clusters were analyzed based on objective data gathered in the questionnaire. Seven types of forest landowners were identified: absentee hunter, agrarian/steward, residential landowner, agrarian/economic, wildlife manager, uncertain landowner, and next generation landowner. Outreach efforts are discussed relative to potential impact and use of various methods for each of the seven clusters.
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Citation
Schweiss, Brian E.; Dwyer, John. 2008. Landowner attitudes and perceptions of forest and wildlife management in rural northern Missouri. In: Jacobs, Douglass F.; Michler, Charles H., eds. 2008. Proceedings, 16th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; 2008 April 8-9; West Lafayette, IN. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-24. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station: 297-305.
