Assessing Residents' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values Towards the Duluth Urban Deer Herd
2015-05
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Assessing Residents' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values Towards the Duluth Urban Deer Herd
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2015-05
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The purpose of this exploratory quantitative mail survey was to discover Duluth residents’
knowledge, attitudes, and values towards the urban deer herd. An area based purposive sample was drawn
and the households selected were mailed a four-part questionnaire. The sample was comprised of
households in 5 of Duluth’s 34 Deer Hunt Areas (DHAs) which had been created by the Arrowhead
Bowhunters Alliance (ABA). With a 32% return rate (150 surveys returned of 469 viable sent), surveys
found: scores of; 64% correct on factual deer knowledge; personal experiences, family, and friends were
the most common sources of knowledge; personal perceived knowledge was higher than the perceived
knowledge of others; overall attitudes and values were positive towards deer; and communication benefits
were the most important attitude and values topic. From these results, it was found that factual knowledge
was low, self-initiated sources of knowledge were most common, residents’ perceived knowledge was
higher than factual knowledge, and naturalistic attitudes were the highest while deer tolerance and
educational values were the lowest. From these results, the following recommendations were made:
schools could create more lessons revolving around deer in all subject matters to increase knowledge;
nature centers and ELC’s could create more programs concentrating on deer to increase positive attitudes
and values towards them; government agencies could use their position for outreach campaigns revolving
around deer to reach a large amount of people; and the City of Duluth and the ABA could use the results
of this survey to help create a management plan for the urban deer herd.
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A thesis [actually a Plan B] submitted to the faculty of the University of Minnesota Duluth by Ryan Timmerman in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Environmental Education, May 2015. Committee chair: Bruce Munson. This item has been modified from the original to redact the signatures present.
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University of Minnesota, Duluth. College of Education and Human Service Professions. Master of Environmental Education program.
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Timmerman, Ryan. (2015). Assessing Residents' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values Towards the Duluth Urban Deer Herd. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/187475.
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