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Exploring The Human Dimensions of Bird Conservation

Exploring The Human Dimensions of Bird Conservation. Participants: Individuals. 22 Federal Partners. 11 State Partners. 15 Private Partners. Participants: Organizations. 7 Federal Agencies. 7 State Agencies. 7 Private Orgs.

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Exploring The Human Dimensions of Bird Conservation

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  1. Exploring The Human Dimensions of Bird Conservation

  2. Participants: Individuals 22 FederalPartners 11 StatePartners 15 Private Partners Participants: Organizations 7 FederalAgencies 7 StateAgencies 7 Private Orgs

  3. “everything in conservation that is not about wildlife and habitats” Decker et al., 2012

  4. “Understanding private landowner attitudes towards free-ranging elk prior to reintroduction of the species in Great Smoky Mountain NP would help determine true carrying capacity.”

  5. “We would have been able to identify the balance between waterfowl population and habitat objectives in NAWMP if we had better knowledge of the hunting and birding communities’ respective desires.”

  6. Workshop Objectives 1. Learn the basics of human dimensions science. 2. Understand what we already know about “our people”. 3. Hear cases where we’ve successfully applied human dimensions science to conservation. 4. Practice what we’ve learned by talking through real-world scenarios. 5. Think about what comes next.

  7. Four Themes

  8. 1. Human dimensions science is, in fact, a science.

  9. Social & Slide Credit: Ashley Dayer

  10. Landscape components • Life history requirements • Landscape components • Life history requirements NAWMP Model for Individual Species JV1 Recruitment Mortality Recruitment Harvest • Hunter • Activity BPOP JV2 Mortality Recruitment • Landscape components Mortality JV… • Life history requirements Slide Credit: Andy Raedeke

  11. Proposed Hunter Participation Model Habitat • Capacity to Hunt Region 3 • Identity Formation Retention • Decisions to Hunt Turnover Recruitment Attrition • Capacity to Hunt Region 2 • Identity Formation Hunter Numbers Recruitment • Decisions to Hunt Attrition • Capacity to Hunt Recruitment BPOP Region 1 Attrition • Identity Formation • Decisions to Hunt Slide Credit: Andy Raedeke

  12. 2. We don’t have the luxury of maintaining the status quo

  13. Slide Credit: Loren Chase

  14. Average Age of DU Magazine Readership Average increase in age of 1 year each year Millions Slide Credit: Dale Humburg

  15. 3. Conservation isn’t complicated, people are complicated.

  16. “Averaging 8.2 million viewers in its 3rd season, "Duck Dynasty" is the No. 1 nonfictional television series on cable.” U.S. News and World Report, March 20 2013

  17. Barriers Unimportant Important Lack of time Family commitments Don’t know where Financial reasons Lack of equipment Physically unable Don’t know how Lack of interest Nobody to go with Intimidated by nature Slide Credit: Loren Chase

  18. 4. Wildlife management decisions are based on our assumptions about people and how they behave

  19. Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in PlanningCanaan Valley NWR Slide Credit: Natalie Sexton

  20. Understanding the Playing Field HighConsensus Good Faith Opportunities Collaboration Opportunities LowConcern High Concern X Strategic Concentration LowConsensus Slide Credit: Natalie Sexton

  21. Wildlife conservation: populations, habitats, & people

  22. Next Steps 1. NAWMP-NFC Human Dimensions Working Group 2. Share information from workshop widely throughout the bird conservation community 3. 2013 webinar series in conjunction with AFWA’s wildlife viewing and nature tourism working group 4. 2013 National Conservation Need: Strengthening state fish & wildlife agency capacity to understand and respond to changing trends in constituent values and demographics.

  23. For more information: www.nabci-us.org Allison Vogt AVogt@fishwildlife.org

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