Agroforestry practices of non-industrial private forest landowners in Washington State

✍ Scribed by J. H. Lawrence; L. H. Hardesty; R. C. Chapman; S. J. Gill

• Book ID: 104633881
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 922 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-4366
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00130093

✦ Synopsis

A mail survey was conducted to gain understanding of the agroforestry practices of non-industrial private forest landowners (NIPF) in Washington State, located in the northwestern USA. Although NIPF owners control 1.5 million hectares of the state's commercial forestland base, their diversity of forestland uses, land management practices and objectives as land managers are not well understood. Past NIPF surveys and anecdotal information suggest agroforestry is a major use of NIPF lands. We defined agroforestry as a potentially sustainable land use practice combining the deliberate growing of woody perennials with agricultural crops and/or animals.