Forests for Water: Exploring Payments for Watershed Services in the U.S. South

“Forests for Water: Exploring Payments for Watershed Services in the U.S. South” offers an introduction to payments for watershed services and other incentive-based mechanisms, and how these mechanisms might work to conserve forested watersheds in the Southern United States. The brief, which was produced by the World Resources Institute, covers possible participants in watershed services transactions and steps for landowners to take in valuing and marketing these services.