Environmental regulations and public financial assistance programs are the typical ``sticks’ ’ and ``carrots’ ’ facing non-industrial private forest (NIPF)landowners in the U.S. This paper presents a theoretical framework and empirical evidence on the impacts of the Endangered Species...

In this study, we analyze the effect of property taxes on changes between agricultural, forestry, Conservation Reserve Program, and developed land uses in Louisiana. We estimate a random parameters logit model of land-use conversion from the National Resources Inventory plot data. Our results...