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Heir Property: Legal and Cultural Dimensions of Collective Landownership in Alabama's Black Belt 

Dyer, Janice (2007-05-15)
When a landowner dies without a will, his or her descendents inherit the property as a communal interest. Heir property, as it is often called, is a common form of landownership among African Americans in the rural South. ...

Three Essays on Pine Straw in Alabama: Needlefall Yields, Market Demands, and Landowner Interest in Harvesting 

Dyer, Janice (2012-05-07)
Forestry in the South is undergoing a paradigm shift in which timber production is not necessarily the major ownership objective for landowners. As pulp and other forest products markets wane and smallholders are increasingly ...