Motivations for Family Forestland Parcelization in the Catskill/Delaware Watersheds of New York

Two Yale University researchers wanted to answer these questions. To do that, Rebecca Sanborn Stone and Mary Tyrrell surveyed landowners in the New York City Watershed region of upstate New York. They contacted both landowners who had subdivided and sold land as well as those who had kept their land intact. From the more than 320 responses, they gained surprising insight into what makes private woodland owners give up on landownership.