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    1. Human Dimensions ofFisheries & Wildlife Management Steve L. McMullin

    4. What famous people say about human dimensions of natural resource mgmt. “To begin with, I had to know something about the people, the country and the trees. And of the three, the first was the most important.” Gifford Pinchot

    5. Famous people (cont.) “The problem of game management is not how we shall handle the deer… the real problem is one of human management. Wildlife management is comparatively easy; human management difficult.” Aldo Leopold

    6. Famous people (cont.) “Our most neglected and crucial research needs are those concerning human social behavior.” Durward Allen

    8. Who are stakeholders?

    9. Four Major Human Dimensions Concerns For Fish & Wildlife managers Decker and Enck (1996) Identify stakeholders Understand forces affecting stakeholder participation in fish &wildlife related activities Involving stakeholders in management decision making Weighting disparate stakeholder input in management decisions

    10. Identifying and Understanding Stakeholders Probably the most important and critical HD need for successful management Who are the stakeholders? What are their attitudes & opinions regarding conservation of fish and wildlife?

    11. Understanding Forces Affecting Participation Traditionally focused on participation in hunting & fishing Nonconsumptive activities gaining greater importance Motivation, specialization, what constitutes a “quality experience”

    12. Involving stakeholders or obtaining input for decision making Social science methods to gauge public opinion Assist managers in making decisions

    13. Weight disparate stakeholder input in making decisions Stakeholders are diverse HD info should not be used to make resource management a process of counting votes Not a substitute for professional judgment and management in the public interest Need to understand your values & those of the stakeholders

    15. Case Study: Montana’s Bighorn River

    16. When You Think of Montana…

    17. Perhaps You Think of Winter

    18. But Half of Montana is Prairie

    19. Yellowtail Dam created trout habitat

    20. A mixed fishery of brown trout and rainbow trout

    21. Including some trophy sized fish!

    22. Fishing pressure grew rapidly

    23. The character of the fishery changed

    24. Higher use and changing users created a controversy that had to be addressed

    25. Fish Population Monitoring

    26. We modeled effects of flows and regulations on fish populations

    27. What did we do?

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