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    1. Bureau of Lost Management: Narrow interests now dominate the agency's direction

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kenna, Jim (author)
    Format:
    Commentary
    Publication Date:
    2020-07
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11728
    Journal Title:
    High Country News
    Journal Title Details:
    52(7) : 42
    Notes:
    Online from publisher., Author observes how the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is losing sight of the traditional mission of maintaining public lands and passing them intact to the next generation. "The BLM's mission is not ideological and does no give preference to certain land users. Its legal mandate calls for managing public lands for a variety of uses, treating energy generation and conservation equally. But now, the agency is losing sight of that mission."

    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
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    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.

    3. Understanding communicational behavior among rangelands’ stakeholders: application of social network analysis

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Hosseininia, Gholamhossein (author), Khachak, Parisa Rafiaani (author), Nooripoor, Mehdi (author), Van Passel, Steven (author), and Azadi, Hossein (author)
    Format:
    Online journal article
    Publication Date:
    2015
    Published:
    Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 32 Document Number: D10630
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
    Journal Title Details:
    59(2) 320-341
    Notes:
    23 pages., via online journal., Understanding communicational behavior of rangelands’ stakeholders is fundamental for effective development of rangeland management plans. This study aimed to understand differences between stakeholders’ relations among various actors involved in rangeland management using social network analysis (SNA). A survey was conducted on 334 stakeholders (89 extension agents, 110 researchers and 135 executive agents) in the Tehran province, Iran. Results showed that all the three groups of stakeholders are interested in making contact mainly within their own group. Furthermore, while the executive agents have shared the strongest technical and friendship relations with the two other groups, the extension agents established the strongest administrative interactions. The researchers, however, made a poor link especially with the extension agents. The study concluded that SNA could be an efficient tool to assess communicational behavior in rangeland management.

    4. Urban-rural interfaces: linking people and nature

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Laband, David N. (author), Lockaby. B. Graeme (author), and Zipperer, Wayne C. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2012
    Published:
    USA: American Society of Agronomy, Soil Science Society of America and Crop Science Society of America, Madison, Wisconsin.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D06961
    Notes:
    332 pages.