I am currently researching how differing wildlife recreational groups (e.g., casual wildlife viewers, birders, hunters, and anglers) view the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Specifically, I am interested in the behaviors, attitudes, and level of trust each one of those groups has towards the agency and towards agency programs.
Please let me know if this reference/site is helpful to you:
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groups: (I) consumprive users (anglers and hunters), (2) birders (a ... suggested, for example, that public attitudes toward wildlife are “moti- vated more by myth and .... watching provide the only context by which individuals experience fish and wildlife ... with representatives of state and federal fish and wildlife agencies in the.
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
Dear Bennett,
in the project on "Env Governance in Context" we are analyzing the role of non-state actors /ENGOs for env issues, and have looked at how these interact with state agencies (our focus here in on Boomerang strategies). If of interest you can browse within the RG project folder where I have uploaded a couple of papers about this work.
However, talking about birders I could suggest you also have a look at the work of Dan Podjed, from Slovenia (he is on RG as well), who has been researching the experience and perception of birdwatchers ....
Best regards,
Romina Rodela
If you have not started reverse citation with Sara Vickerman (Defenders of Wildlife) or Bob Hernbrode Jr. (Colorado Division of Wildlife), you should give that a try at your library. Sara and Bob were on the ground floor in looking at this very question and have published and cited voluminously. Some of it will be gray literature (including WAFWA and IAFWA [now AFWA] annual proceedings) or published by Island Press and other green publishing houses but dig and ye shall find. Another excellent contact for the subject, and wildlife diversity and conservation programs in general, is Naomi Edelson (try National Wildlife Federation).
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