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  title info:
    title: Tradeoffs associated with increasing water yield from the Edwards Plateau, Texas
    sub title: balancing private costs and public benefits
  name:
    name part: Garriga, Matthew David.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1998
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    form: remote
    extent: xiii, 184 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: according to the current ranch brush cover and were designed
  abstract: and the number of acres prospective participants were willing
  abstract: appropriated to implement the legislation, due partially to
  abstract: are likely to enroll in the brush control cost-sharing
  abstract: Austin or San Antonio.
  abstract: basis for estimating how water yields are likely to increase
  abstract: control on privately-owned Texas rangelands. First, a
  abstract: cost. Survey data analysis addressed two issues fundamental
  abstract: Data collected since 1985 have strengthened the scientific
  abstract: demographic profile of the ranchers most likely to
  abstract: demographic profile of the survey respondents are willing to
  abstract: Edwards Plateau, Texas. Since water yields increase from
  abstract: estimate ranchers' willingness to participate in a cost-
  abstract: have a vested interest in the management of rangeland
  abstract: in response to incremental levels of brush removal for sites
  abstract: in the Edwards Plateau. An objective of this thesis was to
  abstract: increase stream and aquifer recharge. No funds were
  abstract: insufficient scientific evidence needed to target rangelands
  abstract: most likely to be willing to participate earn more than 50%
  abstract: of their household income from ranching, derive most of their
  abstract: participate in a cost-share program was developed. Second,
  abstract: participate in a similar cost-sharing program. Landowners
  abstract: people in central Texas and is recharged by rangelands on the
  abstract: ranch income from livestock enterprises, own ranches larger
  abstract: rangelands when brush is controlled, citizens of the region
  abstract: scenario examined in this study. Probit and Cragg models
  abstract: sharing program that would facilitate brush control designed
  abstract: suggest that an estimated 66% of landowner's who match the
  abstract: than 2,000 acres, and own ranches more than 75 miles from
  abstract: The Edwards Aquifer supplies water to approximately 2 million
  abstract: the relationship between reducing brush and increasing water
  abstract: these data were used to estimate how much land participants
  abstract: to enable ranchers to control brush for 10 years at no net
  abstract: to enroll in the proposed program, respectively. Results
  abstract: to increase water yield. The cost-share offers varied
  abstract: to the design and implementation of policy to promote brush
  abstract: vegetation. In 1985 legislation was passed which recognized
  abstract: were used to estimate landowners' willingness to participate
  abstract: where brush control was most likely to improve water yields.
  abstract: yields, and encouraged brush control on private ranches to
  note: by Matthew David Garriga.
  note: "Major subject: Rangeland Ecology and Management".
  note: Vita.
  note: Also available online.
  note: Issued also on microfiche from Lange Micrographics.
  note: M.S. Texas A&M University 1998.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 90-97.
  subject:
    topic: Major rangeland ecology and management
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1998-THESIS-G37
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    location:
      url: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1998-THESIS-G37
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 981202
    record change date: 20220103134721.0
    record identifier: in00001459851