Landowner Incentives and Normative Tolerances for Managing Beaver Impacts

摘要: Limited research has examined landowner acceptance of using incentives for managing wildlife (e.g., compensation schemes). We strategies beaver impacts, use to protect habitat and retain beavers on private property, how responses differed by impact severity, residential location, experiences with beavers. Data were obtained from surveys landowners in four regions Oregon (n = 1,204). Education about coexist was the most acceptable management response across six scenarios chews trees, floods buildings). Lethal control unacceptable all scenarios. As impacts increased, leaving alone became removing dams acceptable. Irrespective impact, would be more likely financial compensation) than remove Landowners Eastern those who experienced less considered aggressive...