Agent-Based Modeling of Harvest Decisions by Small Scale Forest Landowners in Maine, USA

Table 2

The FLAME land ownership goals. A listing of the question responses that were assigned to the initial 6 goals in order to calculate initial goal scores. Intact parcel and home goals were added based on stakeholder recommendations; however, they were populated using similar data distributions as legacy and privacy. The questions were based on the national woodland owner survey regarding reasons for owning land on a 5-point Likert scale: “How important to you are each of the following reasons for owning this parcel?”.

Goals	Surveyed land ownership reason applied to goal
Conservation	To enjoy the scenery
	To protect from development
	To protect wildlife habitat
	To protect the environment
	To leave land unmanaged, letting nature take its course
Fiscal	Income from timber
	Income from nontimber forest products
	Income from development
	For land investment
	As a place to live
Legacy/intact parcel	To pass on to my children
	To preserve small-scale tradition
Personal recreation	Personal recreation
	As a place to live
	To have privacy
Public recreation	To enjoy the scenery
	Personal recreation
Privacy/home	To have privacy
	As a place to live