In an effort to examine whether government ownership of protected areas is necessary for improving forest density, Hayes and Ostrom (47) compared the rating of forest density (on a five-point scale shown in Table 1) assigned to a forest of a protected park or other property regime by the forester or ecologist who had completed supervising the forest mensuration of trees, shrubs, and groundcover conducted in a random sample of forest plots. This ranking rates the vegetation density of the forest in comparison to the normally observed density for the ecological zone within which
the forest is located, thus generating a measure of forest condition that is comparable across different ecological regions. We analyzed 163 forests located in the countries listed above, of which 76 were government-owned forests that were legally designated as protected forests and 87 were public, private, and community-owned forested lands used for diverse purposes. As shown in Table 1, no statistical difference exists between the forest densities related to officially designated protected areas contrasted with other property regimes. Thus, other institutional and tenure arrangements can work as well as government-owned protected areas in the maintenance of vegetation density.
In an effort to examine whether government ownership of protected areas is necessary for improving forest density, Hayes and Ostrom (47) compared the rating of forest density (on a five-point scale shown in Table 1) assigned to a forest of a protected park or other property regime by the forester or ecologist who had completed supervising the forest mensuration of trees, shrubs, and groundcover conducted in a random sample of forest plots. This ranking rates the vegetation density of the forest in comparison to the normally observed density for the ecological zone within whichthe forest is located, thus generating a measure of forest condition that is comparable across different ecological regions. We analyzed 163 forests located in the countries listed above, of which 76 were government-owned forests that were legally designated as protected forests and 87 were public, private, and community-owned forested lands used for diverse purposes. As shown in Table 1, no statistical difference exists between the forest densities related to officially designated protected areas contrasted with other property regimes. Thus, other institutional and tenure arrangements can work as well as government-owned protected areas in the maintenance of vegetation density.
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