Relocation to the Buffalo Commons Research Briefs

A team of researchers from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln recently explored perceptions of newcomers to the panhandle. Who are these new residents in the panhandle? Why did they move? What will keep them in the panhandle? The research team answers these questions in a three-part analysis titled “Relocation to the Buffalo Commons, Newcomers to the Nebraska Panhandle.”

Click here to view the first report: Who are they?
Click here to view the second report: Why did they move?
Click here to view the third report: How do we keep them?

A fourth research brief describes the motivations of recent migrants from both metropolitan and non-metropolitan points of origin, and identifies differences in how both push and pull factors are perceived.

Click here to view the fourth report: Moving to the Rural Great Plains Point of Origin Differences in the Decision Making Process

Three articles related to the buffalo commons were published in Cornhusker Economics. Cornhusker Economics is a weekly newsletter with current research and reports from various faculty and staff associated with the Department of Agricultural Economics. Includes weekly markets.

Community Recruitment and Retention of New Residents, published January 18, 2008

Newcomers to the Nebraska Panhandle: How Do We Keep Them Here?, published December 12, 2007

Community Vision is Important to New Residents, published May 28, 2008

Click here to view a visual presentation that highlights the key points of the study: Relocation to the Buffalo Commons: Using a marketing approach to understand residential decisions among new residents to Nebraska’s Panhandle, Published July 3, 2008

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