This monograph provides an introduction to financing timber and timberland. It is intended to be an overview of credit underwriting for such financing. Primary users would include borrowers and their accountants, attorneys and advisors.
We evaluate the return on investment (ROI) from public land conservation in the state of Minnesota, USA. We use a spatially-explicit modeling tool, the Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs (InVEST), to estimate how changes in land use and land cover (LULC), including public land acquisitions for conservation, influence...