Challenges and opportunities for agroforestry practitioners to participate in state preferential property tax programs for agriculture and forestry

All 50 states offer preferential property tax programs that lower the taxes paid on enrolled agricultural and/or forest lands. While agroforestry is a land-use that combines elements of both agriculture and forestry, eligibility criteria and other rules and regulations may prevent landowners from enrolling agroforestry practices in one or more of the agricultural and forestry tax programs. This pilot-scale study developed conceptual and methodological frameworks to identify the current barriers to and opportunities in preferential tax policies applicable to agroforestry practices. We conducted an extensive review of state preferential property tax programs relevant for agroforestry practices, following focus group discussions with regional experts in five selected states across the United States: North Carolina, Nebraska, Wisconsin, New York, and Oregon. Based on a systematic review of statutes and their supporting documents, we developed a database of programs, which support or create barriers to enrollment of agroforestry practitioners into the programs. We found that agricultural tax assessments were more likely to favor multi-use agriculture and forestry systems than the preferential tax assessments of forestlands in the five states. Forest farming and silvopasture, followed by alley cropping, windbreaks, and riparian forest buffers, were found to be the most common agroforestry practices allowed under preferential tax classifications in the study states. This study provides a framework for cataloging and analyzing preferential property tax-programs to document barriers and facilitators to agroforestry practices in the United States

The Lantern Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 1967

• The Implement • A Broken Backstop • City • My Friend Is • Meditation on Eight Dead Nurses and a Mad Austin Sniper • Fact and Fancy • Valhalla • A Blandishment • You Say You Were a Name So Sweet • Preview Rerun • To Lynne • Shards • The Initial Error • Daniel • Gold on Gold • If Morning Ever Comes • Third Poem to Tonya • The Kiss • Her Soul Was Slippery • Quietlyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1090/thumbnail.jp

A Parallel Adaptive P3M code with Hierarchical Particle Reordering

We discuss the design and implementation of HYDRA_OMP a parallel implementation of the Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics-Adaptive P3M (SPH-AP3M) code HYDRA. The code is designed primarily for conducting cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and is written in Fortran77+OpenMP. A number of optimizations for RISC processors and SMP-NUMA architectures have been implemented, the most important optimization being hierarchical reordering of particles within chaining cells, which greatly improves data locality thereby removing the cache misses typically associated with linked lists. Parallel scaling is good, with a minimum parallel scaling of 73% achieved on 32 nodes for a variety of modern SMP architectures. We give performance data in terms of the number of particle updates per second, which is a more useful performance metric than raw MFlops. A basic version of the code will be made available to the community in the near future.Comment: 34 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Computer Physics Communication

The Lantern Vol. 34, No. 1, December 1967

• il se fait tard • il pleut • For GM • A Fragile Fragment • Epic in Stereo • Kisskraft • The Critical Marquis • Sea Flame • Belladonna • Haiku • Symphony • Ziegfortenblat • It\u27s One of Those Nights • Contentment • Short-sighted and Mildly Unbelievable • Society\u27s Children • Crowded Mirrors • Child in Bright Colors • The Long-range Accident • The Ultimate Machine • They Live in a Crowded Area • Beastiary • Nocturne • I am Like a Candle • Two A.M. and After • Question Times Ten • College Blues • Poem at Midnight • Love Chaos-Style • Once Knew a Homespun Nanny • He Who Argues • Dying by the Water • Is This Prose • The Subintellectual • Untitled Series • Sunset Skirmish • Lyrics of the Field • That Day When I See • Haiku • When the Shadows Stopped • Luz-Maria • Prayerhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1092/thumbnail.jp

The Lantern Vol. 34, No. 2, May 1968

• The Man Without a System • A Medal for Malcolm • On Hearing That Tonya Will Be Married • The Black Sea • Odyssey \u2767 • Second Poem to Chris • Singularity • Period 5-A Began • Long and Aching Ride • Souvenirs • My Eschatological Epitaph • Discotheque • Some Borrowed Words • False Breakthrough • Shore Morning • The Beholder • Thursday Childless • A Most Prominent Role • It Ran Out • Shades of the Living • The Dark Night of the Mind II • One Step Beyond the Doors • A Note of Thanks to My Parents and Teachers • To a Dead Hippie • A Scrap • Love • Haiku No. 30 • Rachel • There Is No Present • Winter Woods • One Hundred Per Cent Genuine • Heaven • Silence Is Like God • I Soaked Up Silence • Opened Letter From Whistler Homer, Insaned Assailant • Sol Clutch Rides Tonight • I Have Seen Destruction • Upon That Night • That\u27s Weird • Alone • Kathy\u27s Tune • On Walking Home • The Wheel • Some Excuse, at Least • Freedom to Flap • Awareness • Okay, You Guys • You Say You Dream • Bacci Miahttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/lantern/1093/thumbnail.jp

EWEB McKenzie Basin Agriculture Producer Survey

39 pagesThe Eugene Water and Electric board is interested in learning about perceptions of agricultural producers—farmers, ranchers, and other growers—in the McKenzie Watershed. The University of Oregon's Community Planning Workshop (CPW) administered and analyzed a survey of selected producers in the watershed.Eugene Water and Electric Boar