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    1. Consider the source: The impact of media and authority in outreach to private forest and rangeland owners

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Ferranto, Shasta (author), Huntsinger, Lynn (author), Stewart, William (author), Getz, Christy (author), Nakamura, Gary (author), and Kelly, Maggi (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2012-04-30
    Published:
    USA: Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 162 Document Number: D07997
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Environmental Management
    Journal Title Details:
    97 : 131-140

    2. Science communication and vernal pool conservation: a study of local decision maker attitudes in a knowledge-action system

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    McGreavy, Bridie (author), Webler, Thomas (author), and Calhoun, Aram J.K. (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2012-03
    Published:
    Elsevier
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10624
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Environmental Management
    Journal Title Details:
    95(1):1-8
    Notes:
    8 pages., via online journal., In this study, we describe local decision maker attitudes towards vernal pools to inform science communication and enhance vernal pool conservation efforts. We conducted interviews with town planning board and conservation commission members (n = 9) from two towns in the State of Maine in the northeastern United States. We then mailed a questionnaire to a stratified random sample of planning board members in August and September 2007 with a response rate of 48.4% (n = 320). The majority of survey respondents favored the protection and conservation of vernal pools in their towns. Decision makers were familiar with the term “vernal pool” and demonstrated positive attitudes to vernal pools in general. General appreciation and willingness to conserve vernal pools predicted support for the 2006 revisions to the Natural Resource Protection Act regulating Significant Vernal Pools. However, 48% of respondents were unaware of this law and neither prior knowledge of the law nor workshop attendance predicted support for the vernal pool law. Further, concerns about private property rights and development restrictions predicted disagreement with the vernal pool law. We conclude that science communication must rely on specific frames of reference, be sensitive to cultural values, and occur in an iterative system to link knowledge and action in support of vernal pool conservation.