Re-submitted upon review April 2001 to Growth and Change . Rocky Mountain states have experienced unprecedented growth as agricultural land is converted to residences. Preservation efforts meet with protest from private landholders claiming public efforts undermine private property rights. This paper explores the degree to which respondents think management of agricultural lands is a public versus a private matter. Data are from a Sublette County, Wyoming mail survey.
Results are relevant to many Western counties having public lands and high growth rates.
They suggest that landowners, wage earners, college graduates, and those who value the County s rural community lifestyle support public management strategies. Well-established residents and those with economic reasons for living in the County support private management strategies. Bastian, C., D. McLeod, M. Germino, W. Reiners and B. Blasko. A hedonic price model is specified with GIS measures. It is used to estimate the impact of amenity and agricultural production land characteristics on price per acre for a sample of Wyoming agricultural parcels.