In New England, where most land is privately owned, research shows that land conservation promotes economic growth. Harvard Forest/Ryan Burton July 22, 2019 Can protecting land promote employment? In New England, the answer is yes Katharine Sims, Amherst College; Jonathan Thompson, Harvard University, and Spencer Meyer, Harvard University Protecting land from being developed intuitively may seem like a drag on local economies, but research in New England finds that it has the opposite effect.
