Alternative Use Facts
Need of New
Incentive programs to promote
better land management should
recognize the landowner as the
major decision maker, according
to a recent study at The Penn
sylvania State University. The
survey was made among 80 in
dividuals who had acquired land
in Warren County during 1968 and
1969.
Public land management
programs, the new owners
suggested, should provide the
landowner with adequate in
formation on land-use alter
natives. Such programs should
also provide the owner with the
means of deciding between
conflicting uses, it was pointed
out. Carrying out the study were
B.J. Turner, C.H. Strauss, and
L.J. Swandic of the School of
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PENNA. FARM SHOW
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Landowners
Forest Resources at Penn State,
A profile of the study group
showed an average age of 43
years and an average income of
$14,000, with nearly half having
attended college. Sixty per cent
of the individuals live in Warren
County, 10 per cent live
elsewhere in the Commonwealth,
and 25 per cent live outside the
state. Only 15 per cent of the
owners derived their total income
from their land. Sixty per cent
did not rely on their land as an
income source.
Most of the survey group
utilized their woodlands for
several functions—with widlife
habitat, hunting and fishing, and
timber production being equally
and most frequently mentioned.
The second most important set of
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Disaster unemployment
assistance (DUA) will be made
available to some 800 self
employed Pennsylvania farmers
objectives involved aesthetics,
maintenance of water flow, soil
protection, and speculative in
vestments. Two-thirds of these
owners had carried out some low
intensity timber management
activity on their land—either as
planting, thinning, or harvesting
of trees.
Older owners with better asset
positions and fewer time con
straints were inclined to become
actively engaged in land
management programs, but were
less flexible in their pattern of
usages. Younger owners had less
time and money to invest in these
pursuits but did maintain a wider
array of land use options. The
intent to harvest woodlands in the
future was expressed more by
younger owners than older ones.
Nearly half of the owners ex
pressed interest in expanding
their land holdings. Smaller
properties were treated as
residence or recreation sites.
Larger ownerships frequently
displayed increased
management efforts and the
adoption of financial objectives,
often allied with timber
production. Overall the current
land ownership pattern does not
appear to be detrimental to
existing or future flows 'f timber
products.
My Neighbors
“Well—apparently not all
of them stick.”
354-5171
Proposal Aids Flood Victims
and small businessmen hit by
June floods as-a result of efforts
by U.S. Senator Richard S. Sch
weiker (R-Pa.).
Schweiker announced adoption
by the U.S. Department of Labor
of his suggestion that self
employed persons working to
repair flood damage on their
farms and business should be
considered “unemployed” until
they are back in operation. The
ruling is retroactive to the June
flood and covers self-employed
persons who had previously been
denied benefits because of
procedural guidelines issued by
the Labor Department
Schweiker said, “Although
farmers and small businessmen
repairing flood-damaged farms
and businesses had no source of
income until their repairs were
completed, Labor Department
rules still denied disaster
unemployment assistance to
them on the technical grounds
that they nevertheless were
working.
“This was clearly a
discriminatory policy, resulting
in hardship to hard-working
farmers and small businessmen
and their families. I am delighted
that the Labor Department has
adopted my proposal, and hope
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this breakthrough has not come
too late,” he said.
In July this year, Schweiker
expressed concern about Labor
Department interpretation of
DUA regulations. He wrote the
Department to express concern
that “existing regulations will
cause some farmers to leave the
farming business entirely, since
unemployment compensation is
desperately needed now by
many, and they may be forced to
give up their farms to keep their
families and themselves at a bare
subsistance level ”
In September, Sweiker wrote
Secretary of Labor James D.
Hodgson to complain that denial
of DUA benefits to self-employed
farmers and small businessmen
was “a particularly harsh in
terpretation of your own
regulations.”
“1 question whether a farmer is
able to perform services m his
business Where his ability to
carry on sucl; a business has been
rendered impossible because of a
disaster In my view, a farmer
cannot perform services in his
business until he has regained the
ability to carry on his business.
He cannot do so until he has
restored his farm to a condition in
which he can generate income,"
Schweiker wrote Hodgson.
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