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...

Many of the Nation's conservation programs seek to achieve multiple environmental objectives. Implementing a multi-objective program efficiently requires program managers to balance different environmental and cost objectives. A number of conservation programs use an index approach to prioritize...