Modeling The Amount of Forested Land in Northern Minnesota.

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Ahn, S., A.J. Plantinga, and R.J. Alig.  2000.  “Predicting Future Forestland Area: A Comparison of Econometric Approaches.”  Forest Science.  Vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 363-376.

Gustafson, E.J. et.al.  2005.  “The Relationship Between Environmental Amenities and Changing Human Settlement Patterns Between 1980 and 2000 in the Midwestern USA.”  Landscape Ecology.  Vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 773-789.

Kline, J.D., A. Moses, and R.J. Alig.  2001.  “Integrating Urbanization into Landscape-Level Ecological Assessments.”  Ecosystems.  Vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 3-18.

Munroe, D.K. and A.M. York.  2003.  “Jobs, Houses, and Trees: Changing Regional Structure, Local Land-Use Patterns, and Forest Cover in Southern Indiana.”  Growth and Change.  Vol. 34, no. 3, pp 299-320.

Munroe, D.K., C. Croissant, and A.M. York.  2005.  “Land Use Policy and Landscape Fragmentation in an Urbanizing Region: Assessing the Impact of Zoning.”  Applied Geography.  Vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 121-141.

Parks, P.J. and B.C. Murray.  1994.  “Land Attributes and Land Allocation: Nonindustrial Forest Use in the Pacific Northwest.”  Forest Science.  Vol. 40, no. 3, pp.558-575.

Parks, P.J., et. al.  2000.  “Using Resource Economics to Anticipate Forest Land Use Change in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic Region.”  Environmental Monitoring and Assessment.  Vol. 63, pp. 175-185.

Pfaff, A.S.P.  1999.  “What Drives Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon? Evidence from Satellite and Socioeconomic Data.”  The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.  Vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 26-43.

Schatzki, T.  2003.  “Options, Uncertainty, and Sunk Costs: an Empirical Analysis of Land Use Change.”  The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.  Vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 86-105.

School, J. and A. Schwartz.  2005.  “Making Your Resources Count: A New Idea for Leveraging a Region’s Natural Infrastructure.”  Planning.  August/September, pp. 38-41.

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