Earth Economics partnered with Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS) to produce Accounting for Nature’s Value with Rangeland Conservation Practices in the Western Range and Irrigated Region, building on our previous NRCS Conservation Practices work to reveal the broader economic importance of conservation investments on western rangelands.
This project sought to demonstrate the replicability of our earlier rangeland ecosystem service valuation framework while improving and expanding those efforts. We include additional (and more detailed) data on the effects of conservation practices on rangeland health, as well as the effects of additional conservation practices that were not considered in the prior work. We also show how the framework can be expanded to rangelands managed by other federal agencies (e.g. Bureau of Land Management) and to other land resource regions (i.e. the Western Range and Irrigated Region, known as LRR D).
Read more about these efforts at our Conservation and Communities page.
Suggested Citation: Fletcher, A., Metz, L.J., Lien, A., Houdeshell, C., Lin, A., Mackey, E., Cousins, K., Kachergis, E., (2024). Accounting for Nature’s Value with Rangeland Conservation Practices in the Western Range and Irrigated Region. Earth Economics, Tacoma, WA.
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