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Final Report: Informing the Identification of Economically Effective Targets for Grassland Conservation in the Dakotas

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Peter Wolter, David Hennessy, Christopher J Anderson, and Hongli Feng, 2018, Final Report: Informing the Identification of Economically Effective Targets for Grassland Conservation in the Dakotas: .

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America’s remaining grassland in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is at risk of being lost to crop production. When crop prices are high, like the historically high corn prices that the U.S. experienced between 2008 and 2014, the risk of grassland conversion is even higher. Changing climate will add uncertainties to any efforts toward conservation of grassland in the PPR. Grassland conversion to cropland in the region would imperil nesting waterfowl among other species and further impair water quality in the Mississippi watershed. In this project, we sought to contribute to the understanding of land conversion in the PPR with the aim to better target the use of public and private funds allocated toward incentivizing grassland preservation [...]

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  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers
  • North Central CASC

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