Revenue from Forest and Rangeland Based Environmental Services

Framework / Assessment
Summary

This provides a measure for the degree to which landowners are compensated for the provision of ecosystem services. This revenue could contribute to profitability of operations to keep lands in forest and range uses, for promoting management that emphasizes important ecosystem services, and for contributing to local economies. There are examples in California of programs that provide direct and/or indirect compensation to landowners for providing ecosystem services. Each of these provides a metric, which can be summed to get total dollar value.