ANNUAL REPORT 2013

Human Dimensions Research Unit

Fernow Hall Ithaca, NY 14853

http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/hdru

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ANNUAL REPORT 2013

Human Dimensions Research Unit

Department of Natural Resources College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Cornell University

PURPOSE This 2013 annual report provides an overview of recent research, teaching, and outreach activities of the Human Dimensions Research Unit (HDRU). The report is designed to reflect the work, interests, and capabilities of the HDRU. Publications listed in this report may be requested by emailing HDRU@cornell.edu or by the HDRU website: http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/hdru

MISSION The HDRU strives to expand the understanding of academicians, students, natural resources agency staff, non-governmental organizations and policy makers about the human dimensions of natural resource management and policy. We do this by studying human attitudes, values and behaviors associated with natural resource management and applying theory and empirical findings to real-world, contemporary problems. Our research outcomes, which include empirical data, conceptual frameworks, and theoretical insights, are reported at conferences and in journals, books, policy briefs, outreach publications, and reports of various types. HDRU research is used by a wide array of decision makers and natural resource practitioners, especially those in state and federal agencies, to develop, implement, and evaluate natural resource policies and management approaches. HDRU faculty and staff also contribute to the teaching and outreach functions of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Department of Natural Resources. We advise both undergraduate and graduate students, and teach courses concerning

various aspects of natural resources including sociology, policy, and management. While all HDRU faculty and academic staff engage in outreach, two of our faculty also have Extension appointments, from which we serve citizens of New York State and beyond. In 2009, an HDRU Outreach publication series was developed to facilitate sharing of research findings in non-technical form.

DESCRIPTION During 2013, the core HDRU and cooperators consisted of dozens of faculty, staff, graduate assistants, and undergraduate student technicians. Research and outreach programs are supported by grants and contracts from federal and state agencies, nongovernmental organizations, foundations, Cornell Cooperative Extension, and the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station. For 2013, grants and contracts for the 5 primary HDRU faculty totaled more than $4.7 million. HDRU graduate faculty have membership in the fields of Natural Resources, Development Sociology, Public Affairs, and Water Resources. In 2013, graduate faculty committee members for HDRU graduate students came from a variety of depart-ments: Communication, Design and Environmental Analysis, Development Sociology, City and Regional Planning, Horticulture, Natural Resources and others. The HDRU has earned an international reputation in the development of the human dimensions specialization of natural resource management. The oldest human dimensions unit of its kind, the HDRU’s history dates from the early 1970s. The success of the HDRU has been greatly enhanced by a partnership of approximately 40 years with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation’s division of Fish, Wildlife, and Marine Resources and a number of federal and state partners.

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49%

7%

1%

43%

% of Overall HDRU Funding

The funding for HDRU research comes from multiple sources including competitive grants and contracts. In 2013, the following funders

contributed to our work: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Audubon New York, Canadian Forest Service, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Cornell Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Environmental Protection Agency, FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, Garden Club of America, Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ittleson Foundation, MN Dept. of Health, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Park Service, National Science Foundation, Northeast States Research Cooperative, NY Forest Owners Association, NY Water Resources Institute, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Polson Institute for Global Development, Ruffed Grouse Society, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Texas A&M University, The World Bank, Toward Sustainability Foundation, US Dept. of Agriculture, US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Forest Service, Wildlife Conservation Society Lao PDR Program, Wildlife Management Institute, and World Wildlife Fund

Figure 1: HDRU total funding from sponsored projects that were active in

2013 (grants and contracts totaled $4,713,634).

Federal Federal Formula Funds Private State

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Cornell UniversityAtkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research

Community and Regional Development Institute

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Departments of: Applied Economics & Engineering, Biology & Environmental Engineering, City and Regional

Planning, Communication, Design & Environmental Analysis, Development Sociology, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Horticulture , Landscape Architecture, Plant

Pathology, and Natural Resources

Einaudi Center for International Studies

Institute for Climate Change in Agriculture

Institute for Social Science

Johnson Graduate School of Management

Lab of Ornithology

Palentological Research Institute

Southeast Asia Program

Survey Research Institute

Government AgenciesAssociation of Fish & Wildlife Agencies

Canadian Forest Service

City of Ithaca

FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission

MI Dept. of NTRES

National Park Service

NH Divisions of Forests and Lands

NY Sea Grant

NYS DEC

NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation

OR Dept of Fish & Wildlife

PA Game Commission

Rachael Carson National Wildlife Refuge

US Army Corps of Engineers

US Dept. of Agriculture

VA Dept of game & Inland Fisheries

VA Dept of Game & Inland Fisheries

VT Fish and Wildlife Department

Private/Public OrganizationsThe Conservation Fund

Finger Lakes Land Trust

German Agency for International Cooperation

Kachemak Heritage Land Trust

Land Trust Alliance

Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas

Northeast Center for Rural Development

Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center

Paleontological Research Institute

Ruffed Grouse Society

Vermont Center for Ecostudies

Wildlife Conservation Society

Wildlife Management Institute

World Wildlife Fund

UniversitiesDelaware State University

George Mason University

Michigan State University

Michigan Technological University

North Carolina State University

North Dakota State University

Penn State University

Plymouth State University

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Rutgers

South Dakota State University

Stanford University

Stockholm University

Trinity Western University

University of Alberta

University of Florida

University of Maine

University of Maryland

University of Michigan

University of New Brunswick

University of Vermont

Virginia Tech University

Washington State University

West Virginia State University

Figure 2: HDRU collaborates with a wide variety of organizations, universities, and governments (recent examples listed above). Without the assistance of these and other

collaborators, much of the work would not be possible.

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HDRU at a Glance

In 2013 HDRU had:

26 Peer Reviewed Publications (see pages 5-7 for a complete list)

11 HDRU Research Reports

11 Training/Outreach Publications and Reports

5 Core Faculty Members

5 Associated Faculty

8 Staff Members

3 Postdoctoral Researchers

19 Graduate Students

1 Ph.D. Degree Completed

13 Undergraduate Researchers

6 Course Offerings with 313 students

22 Extension Workshops and Trainings

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2013 HDRU Journal Articles and Book Chapters Amsden, B., Stedman, R.C., and L. Kruger. 2013.

Volunteer meanings in the making of place. Pp 109-118 in Place and Decision-Making (D. Williams and W. Stewart, Eds). Netherlands, Springer.

Anderson, A., C.A. Lindell, K.M. Moxcey, W.F.

Siemer, G.M. Linz, P.D. Curtis, J.E. Carroll, C.L. Burrows, J.R. Boulanger, K.M.M. Steensma, and S.A. Shwiff. 2013. Bird damage to select fruit crops: The cost of damage and the benefits of control in five states. Crop Protection 52 (2013):103 –109.

Armstrong, A., R.C., Stedman, B. Roessler, and S.

Cuppett. 2013. Beyond the trees: Community as a riparian restoration outcome and resource. Impact: Journal of the American Water Resources Association 15(2):6-8.

Armstrong, A., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Culture

clash and seasonal homeownership in the U.S. Northern Forest. Rural Sociology 78(3):318-345.

Armstrong, A.L., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Rural

landowner identity and efficacy in a transitioning agricultural watershed. Society and Natural Resources 25(11):1193-1203.

Brasier, K.J., D.K. McLaughlin, D. Rhubart, R.C.

Stedman, M.R. Filteau, and J.B. Jacquet. Risk Perceptions of Natural Gas Development in the Marcellus Shale. Environmental Practice 15:108-122.

Brehm, J., B. Eisenhauer, and R.C. Stedman. 2013.

Environmental concern: Examining the role of place meaning and place attachment. Society and Natural Resources 26(5):522-538.

Connelly, N. A., S. Keeler, and B. A. Knuth. 2013.

Understanding angler preferences for species and water bodies: importance for New York’s future fisheries management. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 18(5):386-402.

Decker, D. J., A. B. Forstchen, J. F. Organ, C. A.

Smith, S. H. Riley, C A. Jacobson, G R. Batcheller, and W. F. Siemer. 2013. Impact management: An approach to fulfilling public trust responsibilities of wildlife agencies. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37 (4). DOI: 10.1002/wsb.380.

Decker, D. J., S. J. Riley, and W. F. Siemer. 2013.

Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management. Pages 34-50 (chapter 4) in P. Krausman and J. W. Cain III (Ed.) Wildlife management: contemporary principles and practices. Johns Hopkins Press. Baltimore, MD.

Evensen D, Clarke C, Stedman R. 2013. A New York

or Pennsylvania state of mind: social representations of gas development in the Marcellus Shale. Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences. 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s13412-013-0153-9.

Farrell, M., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Landowner

attitudes towards maple syrup production in the Northern Forest: A Survey of Forest Owners with ≥100 Acres in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 30(4):184-187.

Jacquet, J. B., & Stedman, R. C. (2013). Perceived

Impacts from Wind Farm and Natural Gas Development in Northern Pennsylvania. Rural Sociology, 78(4), 450-472.

Jungels, J., Rakow, D., Broussard Allred, S. and S.

Kent. 2013. Attitudes and aesthetic reactions toward green roofs in the Northeastern United States. Landscape and Urban Planning 117 (September): 13-21. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.04.013

Knuth, B.A., T.L., Brown, and K.M. Hunt. 2013.

Measuring the human dimensions of recreational fisheries. Chapter 21 in A. Zale, D. Parrish, and T. Sutton, eds. Fisheries Techniques, 3rd edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

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Moskell, C., and S. Broussard Allred. 2013. Residents’ beliefs about responsibility for the stewardship of park trees and street trees in New York City. Landscape and Urban Planning 120: 85-95. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.08.002.

Moskell, C. and S. Broussard Allred. 2013.

Integrating Human and Natural Systems in Community Psychology: An Ecological Model of Stewardship Behavior. American Journal of Community Psychology 51(1/2): 1-14. DOI: 10.1007/s10464-012-9532-8.

Monroe, M.A. and S. Broussard Allred. 2013.

Building individual and community capacity: The promise of environmental education in community-based natural resource management. In M. Krasny and J. Dillon (eds.), Trading Zones in Environmental Education: Creating Transdisciplinary Dialogue, p. 45-78. New York, NY: Peter Lang

Rickard, L., K.A. McComas, D.J. Decker, R.C.

Stedman, and C.A. Clarke. 2013. Exploring risk attenuation and crisis communication after a plague death in Grand Canyon. Journal of Risk Research 16(2): 145-167.

Schnur, E., Allred, S. B. and D. Kittredge. 2013.

Conservation awareness in New York State: Do family forest landowners know their conservation options? Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 30(4): 175-183.

Siemer, W. F., S. A. Jonker, D. J. Decker, and J. F.

Organ. 2013. Toward an understanding of beaver management as human and beaver densities increase. Human-Wildlife Interactions 7(1):114-131.

Stedman, R. C. 2013. Resource dependence and rural development. p 77-91 in G.P. Green (Ed). Handbook of Rural Development. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publ.

Stedman, R.C., and N. Ardoin. 2013. Mobility,

power, and scale in place-based environmental education. Pp. 231-252 in M.E. Krasny and J. Dillon (Eds.). Trading Zones in Environmental Education. New York: Peter Lang.

Stedman, R.C., B. Amsden, T.M Beckley, K.G.

Tidball. 2013. Photo Based Methods for Understanding Place Meanings as Foundations of Attachment. Pp. 112-124 in L. Manzo and P. Devine-Wright (Eds) Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Research. London, Routledge.

Stedman, R.C., and M.L. Ingalls. 2013. Topophilia,

Biophilia, and Greening in the Red Zone. Pp. 129-144 in K.G. Tidball and M.E.Krasny (Eds.) Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience, and Community Greening. London, UK: Springer.

Withrow-Robinson, B., Allred, S.B., Landgren, C.,

and M. Sisock. 2013. Planning Across Generations: Helping Family Landowners maintain their Ties to the Land. Journal of Extension 51(5): Article Number 5FEA6. Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2013october/a6.php.

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2013 HDRU Publication Series Boulanger, J. R., W. F. Siemer, D. J. Decker, and M.

S. Baumer. 2013. Turkey hunting in New York: Hunter activities and views on regulations. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-07. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 68 pp.

Connelly, N. A., S. B. Allred, and P. J. Smallidge.

2013. Foresters’ and Loggers’ Views on Woody Biofuels in New York. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-02. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 29 pp.

Connelly, N.A. and B.A. Knuth. 2013. Black Bass

Anglers’ Experiences in New York and Their Views on Tournaments and Fisheries Management. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-03. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 31 pp.

Connelly, N. A., K. K. Smith, T. B. Lauber, J.

Niederdeppe, and B. A. Knuth. 2013. Factors Affecting Fish Consumption among New Mothers Living in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-01. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 62 pp.

Heck, N., T.B. Lauber, and R.C. Stedman. 2013.

Pathogens and invasive species in the Great Lakes: Understanding manager response targeting bait dealers and anglers. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-09. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 41 pp.

Larson, L. R., D. J. Decker, R. C. Stedman, W. F.

Siemer, M. S. Baumer, and J. W. Enck. 2013. Hunter Recruitment and Retention in New York: A Framework for Research and Action. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-04. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 72 pp.

Lauber, T.B., N.A. Connelly, J. Niederdeppe, and B.A. Knuth. 2013. What we know about fish consumption advisories: Insights from the experts and the literature. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-06. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 121 pp.

Lauber, T.B., J. Niederdeppe, N.A. Connelly, and

B.A. Knuth. 2013. Fish consumption advisory interpretation by key audiences in the Great Lakes region. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-20. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 59 pp.

Poe, G.L., T.B. Lauber, N.A. Connelly, S. Creamer,

R.C. Ready, and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Net benefits of recreational fishing in the Great Lakes Basin: A review of the literature. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-10. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 79 pp.

Siemer, W. F., J. R. Boulanger, D. J. Decker, and M.

S. Baumer. 2013. Turkey hunting in New York: Focus on fall hunting season. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-08. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.

Siemer, W. F., T. B. Lauber, D. J. Decker, and S. J.

Riley. 2013. Agency capacities to detect and respond to disease threats: Professionals’ views on limiting factors and action priorities. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-05. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 46 pp.

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FACULTY AND STAFF

CORE FACULTY:

Shorna B. Allred, Associate Professor, Director of

Graduate Studies and Unit Associate Director

Specializations: Human dimensions of natural resource management; natural resource policy; environmental attitudes and behavior with emphasis on forest and water resources.

Daniel J. Decker, Professor, Department Chair and

Unit Associate Director

Specializations: Integration of human dimensions insights into wildlife management decision making, policy, planning, and practice; stakeholder involvement in wildlife management; community-based natural resources management; risk perception and communication related to wildlife management.

Barbara A. Knuth, Vice Provost and Dean of the

Graduate School; Professor and Unit Associate

Director

Specializations: Great Lakes and marine fisheries resource policy and management; risk communication and risk management related to chemical contaminants in fish; human dimensions of ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management.

T. Bruce Lauber, Senior Research Associate

Specializations: Conflict and collaboration in natural resource management; citizen participation in decision making; risk management and communication related to fisheries management; invasive species management.

Figure 3: Human Dimensions Research Unit Organizational Chart

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Richard C. Stedman, Professor and Unit Director

Specializations: Sense of place; community resilience; impacts of social and environmental change on wildlife recreation and community; risk and policy; environmental attitudes and behaviors; community-based resource management; landowner attitudes and behaviors; coupled human/ecological systems.

ASSOCIATED FACULTY:

Paul D. Curtis, Associate Professor and Extension

Wildlife Specialist, Dept. Natural Resources

Specializations: Resolving conflicts between people and wildlife; citizen participation in decision making; outreach and policy education.

Heidi Kretser, Adjunct Assistant Professor,

Livelihoods & Conservation Coordinator for the N.

America Program Wildlife Conservation Society

Specializations: Land-use development and patterns; how human activities in rural landscapes influence wildlife and human-wildlife conflicts; how communities, groups of actors in a conservation issue, or a single organization move from process and discussion of an issue to on-the-ground conservation impacts.

Katherine A. McComas, Professor and Chair,

Department of Communication

Specializations: Risk, science, and environmental communication; community involvement and public participation; trust and credibility related to science communication.

Gregory L. Poe, Professor, Dyson School of Applied

Economics and Management

Specializations: Environmental economics, non-market valuation, and the economics of water policies.

Amanda D. Rodewald, Director of Conservation

Science, Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Associate

Professor, Department of Natural Resources

Specializations: Wildlife population and community ecology; conservation biology; landscape ecology; socioecological interactions in tropical working landscapes; forest management; urban ecology.

UNIT STAFF:

Meghan S. Baumer, Administrative/Research

Assistant

Specializations: Environmental psychology, environmental education, volunteer management, unit office management; website maintenance; administrative assistance.

Jason R. Boulanger, Extension Associate

Specializations: Human dimensions of hunter subgroups human-wildlife conflicts, wildlife disease, and geographic information systems.

Nancy A. Connelly, Research Specialist

Specializations: Incorporating human dimensions perspectives in natural resources management; risk perception and communication related to fisheries management; survey research methods.

Caren Cooper, Research Associate at the Cornell

Lab of Ornithology

Specializations: Links between nature-based recreation and natural resource management, links between public participation in scientific research (Citizen Science) and conservation attitudes, intentions, and behaviors.

Gretchen Gary, Extension Associate

Specializations: Interdisciplinary research, invasive species, climate change, natural resource management, outreach and education.

Maureen Mullen, Communications Outreach

Coordinator/Extension Aide

Specializations: Organizing and implementing workshops and courses in conservation-related topics; human disturbance and species distribution correlations; geographic information systems; database management.

William F. Siemer, Research Associate

Specializations: Motivations and satisfactions associated with wildlife-dependent recreation; educational program evaluation; risk perceptions associated with wildlife-related damage and disease transmission; mass media effects on risk perception.

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Karlene K. Smith, Research Aide

Specializations: Survey implementation; interviewing; database management; content analysis.

POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS:

Ashley Dayer, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Specializations: Human dimensions of forest management for wildlife, persuasion, wildlife values, environmental education, bird conservation, and strategic communications.

Nadine Heck, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Specializations: Marine conservation; social dimensions of fisheries; ocean/aquatic governance; environmental decision-making.

Lincoln Larson, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Specializations: Community-based natural resource management, environmental attitudes and behaviors, outdoor recreation, environmental education, sustainable tourism, and park management.

GRADUATE ASSISTANTS:

Ingrid Biedron, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Human dimensions of marine ecosystem-based management; the influence of social factors on New England and Mid-Atlantic regional fishery management council adoption of ecosystem-based fisheries management.

Stephen Decker, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Human dimensions of large herbivore restoration and management, integrated approaches to wildlife management in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Catherine Doyle-Capitman, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Uses of and values associated with public lands, institutional change in natural resource agencies.

Darrick Evensen, Graduate Assistant and EPA

Star Fellow

Specializations: Risk perception and risk communication of environmental hazards; social representations of energy development, with a focus on unconventional natural gas development.

Jim Goetz, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Natural resource policy and governance; gender and land tenure issues related to payment for ecosystem services in practice; human dimensions of forest conservation; tropical bird conservation.

Abigail Hart, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: social-ecological resilience. natural resource-based conflict and collaboration.

Darragh Hare, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Natural resource policy and governance; public trust doctrine; environmental ethics; interdisciplinarity.

Heather Wieczorek Hudenko, Graduate

Assistant

Specializations: Human-wildlife interactions; communication; risk; human behavior and decision making; wildlife conservation and management.

Micah Ingalls, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Community-based natural resource management and social-ecological resilience.

Ted Lawrence, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: International development and natural resource conservation in Latin America, specifically Yucatan, Mexico; Coupled human and natural systems; Common-pool resource regimes; Landscape ecology and eco-agriculture.

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Yoke Lee Lee, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Social-ecological systems focusing on ecosystem-approach to fisheries management, artisanal/small-scale fisheries, and poverty in Southeast Asia, particularly Malaysia; destructive fishing practices related to live reef fish trade (LRFT) and artisanal fisher behavior.

Yue Li, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Environmental education; evaluation of online courses for environmental educators.

Josephine Martell, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Human-wildlife interactions; public policy and legislation; humane wildlife management; understanding how classifications can stigmatize wildlife; developing stakeholder communications tools and processes.

Christine Moskell, Graduate Assistant and EPA

Star Fellow

Specializations: Community engagement in urban forestry; urban forest governance, stakeholder engagement.

Rachel Parks, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Communications, environmental policy, species of special concern and endangered species.

Nirav Patel, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Role of community perception, specifically the attitudes of educators and students towards Renewable Energy Systems and its impact on assessing Renewable Energy Literacy.

Emily Pomeranz, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: stakeholder engagement and collaboration in tourism and wildlife management.

Santi Saypanya, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Conservation education and outreach program development and evaluation.

Carrie Simon, Graduate Assistant

Specializations: Human dimensions of ecosystem-based management; institutional theory; adoption of environmental management plans.

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Table of Contents

Summary of Research Activities .................................................................................. 13

Wildlife Resources Management and Policy ........................................................... 13

Fisheries Resources Management and Policy ......................................................... 18

Forest Lands Management ...................................................................................... 22

Natural Resources Communication and Education .............................................. 24

Water Resource Management and Policy .............................................................. 26

Natural Resources Policy, Planning, and Evaluation ............................................. 28

The Well-Being of Resource-Dependent Communities ........................................ 28

Sense of Place ........................................................................................................... 30

Climate Change ......................................................................................................... 31

Understanding and Managing Social-ecological Systems ..................................... 32

Public Trust Thinking, Policy and Practice ............................................................ 34

Summary of Extension and Outreach Activities ....................................................... 35

Teaching Activities ...................................................................................................... 40

Summary of Consultations, Honors, Awards, and other Scholarly Activities .......... 41

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Summary of Research Activities Wildlife Resources Management and Policy

Public Involvement in Wildlife Management Communities across the country have increasingly called for wildlife management solutions tailored to their particular situations, especially with respect to human-wildlife conflicts. In addition to seeking involvement in defining problems, goals, objectives, and methods, some communities have expressed willingness to share responsibility for implementing management. For community-based management to be effective, community capacity often needs to be adequate. Recent studies have made substantial progress in defining the relevant elements of community capacity and exploring social learning that occurs as communities work with state agencies on local wildlife problems. Other research is examining stakeholder interests and how various groups attempt to use the political process to achieve these wildlife management goals.

Hunter Recruitment and Retention in New York

State

Funded by: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Investigators: Daniel Decker, William Siemer, Richard Stedman, Lincoln Larson, and Meghan Baumer Collaborators: Gordon Batcheller, Mike Schiavone, Chuck Dente, Mike Wasilco, Ken Baginski, and Melissa Neely (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: Lincoln Larson (lrl66@cornell.edu) Publications: Larson, L. R., D. J. Decker, R. C. Stedman, W. F.

Siemer, M. S. Baumer, and J. W. Enck. 2013. Hunter Recruitment and Retention in New York: A Framework for Research and Action. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-04. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 72 pp.

Larson, L., R. C. Stedman, D. J. Decker, W. F. Siemer, and M. S. Baumer. Exploring the social habitat for hunting: toward a comprehensive framework for understanding hunter recruitment and retention. Human Dimensions of Wildlife (in press).

Presentation: Warnke, K., Malcolm, K., Burroughs, J., Cerulli, T.,

McCaulou, L. R., Rinella, S., Dunfee, M., Frampton, J., Tidball, K., & Stedman, R. (2013). Food for thought: Hunting as a connection to nature through the food we eat. Associated Meeting & Panel Discussion at the Wildlife Society Annual Conference, Milwaukee, WI: October 7, 2013.

Transitioning Citizen Task Forces (CTFs) for

Deer Management: Reevaluating Stakeholder Input for Deer Management

Funded by: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Investigators: Daniel Decker, William Siemer, Shorna Allred, Richard Stedman, and Emily Pomeranz Collaborators: Jeremy Hurst, Jim Farquhar, and Arthur Kirsch (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: Daniel Decker (dj6@cornell.edu)

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Understanding the Bird Conservation Potential &

Needs of Land Trusts Funded by: Cornell Lab of Ornithology Investigators: Ashley Dayer, Amanda Rodewald, Ron Rohrbaugh, and Richard Stedman

Collaborators: Andrew Zepp (Finger Lakes Land Trust), Erin Heskett (Land Trust Alliance), Andrew Mackie (Land Trust of the Upper Arkansas), Marie McCarty (Kachemak Heritage Land Trust), Ole Amundsen (The Conservation Fund) HDRU Contact: Ashley Dayer (aad86@cornell.edu)

Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management

Structured Decision Making for Yearling Buck Management

Funded by: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Investigators: Daniel Decker, Richard Stedman, and William Siemer Collaborators: Jeremy Hurst, Bryan Swift, Ed Kautz, Art Kirsch, and Jim Farquar (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu)

Other Publications and Presentations on the Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management:

Publication: Siemer, W. F., S. A. Jonker, D. J. Decker, and J. F.

Organ. 2013. Toward an understanding of beaver management as human and beaver densities increase. Human-Wildlife Interactions 7(1):114-131.

Presentation: Decker, D. J. 2013. Sustaining hunting in New

York: History and future. New York State Fish and Wildlife Management Board meeting, March 25.

Program Assessments and Evaluations Natural resource management agencies increasingly seek formal assessments before establishing new programs or modifying existing programs. They also periodically evaluate ongoing programs. HDRU research staff bring diverse disciplines to bear on program assessments and utilize a comprehensive evaluation strategy that examines program theoretical foundation, design, implementation, and impacts. We apply this approach as needed and identify elements that facilitate or impede program success or failure. Such evaluation allows resource managers and program directors to make better decisions about program design, modification and continuation and also to determine the impacts of programs.

Tompkins County Deer Management Focus Area Evaluation

Funded by: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Investigators: Daniel Decker, Richard Stedman, William Siemer, and Emily Pomeranz Collaborators: Jeremy Hurst, Steve Joule, Bryan Swift, and Gordon Batcheller (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu)

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Civic Conservation Recreation Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Multi-state Hatch Funds Investigators: Marianne Krasny, Daniel Decker, Richard Stedman, William Siemer, and Keith Tidball Collaborators: Paul Curtis and Jay Boulanger HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu) Presentation: Siemer, W. F., D. J. Decker, and R. C. Stedman.

2013. 2011 Cornell lands hunters: Insights about deer hunting as conservation recreation. New York State Fish and Wildlife Management Board meeting, October 31.

Assessing Agency Capacities to Manage Fish and

Wildlife Health Funded by: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Wildlife Restoration, and Sport Fish Restoration Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Daniel Decker, Shawn Riley (Michigan State University), and William Siemer

Collaborators: Bob Duncan (VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries), Collin Gillin (OR Dept. of Fish and Wildlife), Gary Taylor (Assoc. of Fish and Wildlife Agencies), Gary Whelan (MI Dept. of Natural Resources), David Whitehurst (VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries), and Margaret Wild (National Park Service) HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu) Publication: Siemer, W. F., T. B. Lauber, D. J. Decker, and S. J.

Riley. 2013. Agency capacities to detect and respond to disease threats: Professionals’ views on limiting factors and action priorities. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-5. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 46 pp.

Presentation: Siemer, W. F., T. B. Lauber, D. J. Decker, and S. J.

Riley. 2013. State Agency Capacities to Address Disease Threats: Limiting Factors and Action Priorities. Presentation, Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference. Saratoga Springs, New York. April 2013.

Understanding Attitudes and Values of Wildlife Stakeholders

Developing Knowledge to Manage Economic, Health, and Safety Risks of Wildlife for

Individuals and Communities in New York Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Investigators: Daniel Decker and William Siemer Collaborator: Gordon Batcheller (NYSDEC)

HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu) Presentation: William F. Siemer and Daniel J. Decker. 2013.

Coyotes and public perceptions of risk: Insights from research in Westchester County. NYSDEC Coyote Research Meeting, 408 Baker Hall, State University of New York –College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, New York.

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Limiting Bird Damage to Fruit Crops: Integrating Economic, Biological, and Consumer Information

to Determine Testable Management Strategies for the Future

Funded by: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) grant Investigators: Catherine Lindell, Philip Howard, and Chi-Ok Oh (Michigan State University); Stephanie Shwiff (USDA-APHIS, National Wildlife Research Center); Paul Curtis and Jay Boulanger (Dept. of Natural Resources); Juliet Carroll, (Dept. of Plant Pathology), Karen Steensma (Trinity Western University); George Linz (USDA-APHIS and North Dakota State University); Erin Lizotte and Nikki Rothwell (Michigan State University Extension); and Colleen Burrows (Washington State University Extension) Collaborator: Aaron Anderson (USDA-APHIS, National Wildlife Research Center) HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu) Publications: Anderson, A., C.A. Lindell, K.M. Moxcey, W.F.

Siemer, G.M. Linz, P.D. Curtis, J.E. Carroll, C.L. Burrows, J.R. Boulanger, K.M.M. Steensma, and S.A. Shwiff. 2013. Bird damage to select fruit crops: The cost of damage and the benefits of control in five states. Crop Protection 52 (2013):103 –109.

Anderson, A., C.A. Lindell, K.M. Moxcey, W.F.

Siemer, G.M. Linz, P.D. Curtis, J.E. Carroll, C.L. Burrows, J.R. Boulanger, K.M.M. Steensma, and S.A. Shwiff. The Welfare Impacts of Bird Damage and its Control in California Wine Grape Production. Journal of Wine Economics. (in press).

Turkey Hunting in New York: Participation,

Attitudes about Hunting Regulations, and Influences on Fall Hunting Satisfaction

Funded by: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Investigators: Daniel Decker, William Siemer, Jay Boulanger, and Meghan Baumer Collaborators: Mike Schiavone, Lance Clark, Jeff Eller, Pat Vissering, Emilio Rende, and Sandy Chan (NYSDEC); Angela Fuller (Cornell Coop Unit) HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu) Publications: Boulanger, J. R., W. F. Siemer, D. J. Decker, and M.

S. Baumer. 2013. Turkey hunting in New York: Hunter activities and views on regulations. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-07. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 68 pp.

Siemer, W. F., J. R. Boulanger, D. J. Decker, and M.

S. Baumer. 2013. Turkey hunting in New York: Focus on fall hunting season. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-08. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY.

Revealing the Potential of National Wildlife Refuges to Foster Conservation Recreation and

Resilience in Local Communities Funded by: Hatch Multistate Project NE 1962 (USDA)/Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Investigators: Daniel Decker, Richard Stedman, William Siemer, and Catherine Doyle-Capitman Collaborators: Natalie Sexton (US Fish and Wildlife Service), Michael Schiavone (NYSDEC), Lisa Chase (University of Vermont), and Erin Seekamp (North Carolina State University) HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu)

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Communications in Human-wildlife Conflict Management in Florida

Funded by: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Investigators: Daniel Decker, William Siemer, and Meghan Baumer Collaborators: Alexander Gulde, Chris Wynn, Angeline Scotten, and Ann Forstchen (FWC) HDRU Contact: William Siemer (wfs1@cornell.edu)

Understanding the Human Dimensions of Human-Wildlife Habituation: Developing

Knowledge for Interventions to Foster Positive Interactions between People and Wildlife

Funded by: National Park Service Investigators: Daniel Decker and Heather Wieczorek Hudenko Collaborators: Dr. Kirsten Leong (Biological Resources Management Division, National Park Service) and Bruce Connery (Acadia National Park, National Park Service Habituation Steering Committee) HDRU Contact: Heather Wieczorek Hudenko (hah29@cornell.edu) Publications: Wieczorek Hudenko, H., and D. J. Decker. 2013.

Perspectives on the management of human-wildlife habituation: Report from a workshop at the George Wright Society Conference, Portland, OR, March 3, 2009. Natural Resource Report NPS/BRMD/NRR—2013/630. National Park Service. Fort Collins, CO.

Wieczorek Hudenko, H., and B. Connery. 2013.

Managers’ perspectives on the human dimensions of human-wildlife habituation in National Parks: Report from a survey of National Park Service Managers. Natural Resource Report NPS/BRMD/NRR—2013/629. National Park Service. Fort Collins, CO.

Wieczorek Hudenko, H., W. F. Siemer, and D. J.

Decker. 2013. Status of peer-reviewed literature on the human dimensions of managing wildlife habituation and food conditioning in National Parks. Natural Resource Report NPS/BRMD/NRR—2013/628. National Park Service. Fort Collins, CO.

Wieczorek Hudenko, H., and D. J. Decker. 2013.

Perspectives on human dimensions of wildlife habituation: Report from a workshop at the Human Dimensions of Fish and Wildlife Management Conference, Estes Park, CO, October 1, 2008. Natural Resource Report NPS/BRMD/NRR—2013/627. National Park Service. Fort Collins, CO.

Wieczorek Hudenko, H., and W. F. Siemer. 2013.

Management of habituation and food conditioning in National Parks: Report from a content analysis of NPS guidance documents. Natural Resource Report NPS/BRMD/NRR—2013/626. National Park Service. Fort Collins, CO.

Human Dimensions of Wildlife Disease: Understanding Perceptions of Risk and

Identifying Implications for Developing Effective Communication Messages

Funded by: National Park Service and Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Investigators: Daniel Decker, Richard Stedman, William Siemer, Darrick T.N. Evensen, Laura Rickard, Christopher Clarke, and Katherine McComas (Dept. of Communication) Collaborators: Margaret Wild, Kevin Castle, and Kirsten Leong (National Park Service) HDRU Contact: Daniel Decker (djd6@cornell.edu) Publication: Rickard, L., K.A. McComas, D.J. Decker, R.C.

Stedman, and C.A. Clarke. 2013. Exploring risk attenuation and crisis communication after a plague death in Grand Canyon. Journal of Risk Research 16(2): 145-167.

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Fisheries Resources Management and Policy

Understanding Participation, Attitudes, and Values Associated with Fisheries Management

Many stakeholders with diverse interests are affected by fisheries management decisions and activities. Understanding the attitudes and values of these stakeholders toward management is a base for predicting not only the acceptability of various management strategies, but also the likely impacts that will be produced through management programs. This information is useful to fisheries agencies, and also to communities and marine trades groups who wish to improve marketing of the fisheries resources of their localities and regions.

Building Capacity for Outreach to Recreational Users on Aquatic Invasive Species

Funded by: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Richard Stedman, Nancy Connelly, and Ingrid Biedron Collaborators: David MacNeill and Chuck O’Neill (New York Sea Grant); Donald Zelazny (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: Bruce Lauber (tbl3@cornell.edu)

Governance and Social Capacity for Sustainable Fisheries in the Great Lakes and Marine Coastal

Areas, sub-project of Multi-state project on Understanding the Ecological and Social

Constraints in Achieving Sustainable Fisheries Resource Policy and Management

Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Multi-state Project Investigator: Barbara Knuth Collaborator: William Taylor (Michigan State University) HDRU Contact: Barbara Knuth (bak3@cornell.edu)

Increasing the Effectiveness of Fish Consumption Advisories in the Great Lakes States

Funded by: Minnesota Department of Health and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Investigators: Barbara Knuth, Bruce Lauber, Jeff Niederdeppe (Dept. of Communication), and Nancy Connelly HDRU Contact: Nancy Connelly (nac4@cornell.edu) Publications: Connelly, N. A., K. K. Smith, T. B. Lauber, J.

Niederdeppe, and B. A. Knuth. 2013. Factors Affecting Fish Consumption among New Mothers Living in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-01. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 62 pp.

Lauber, T.B., N.A. Connelly, J. Niederdeppe, and

B.A. Knuth. 2013. What we know about fish consumption advisories: Insights from the experts and the literature. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-06. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 121 pp.

Lauber, T.B., J. Niederdeppe, N.A. Connelly, and

B.A. Knuth. 2013. Fish consumption advisory interpretation by key audiences in the Great Lakes region. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-20. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 59 pp.

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Stakeholder Communication and the Transition to Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management for

the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils

Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and the J.P.Morgan Chase Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellowship (2009-2012). Investigators: Barbara Knuth, Nancy Connelly, and Karlene Smith Collaborators: Katherine A. McComas (Dept. of Communication), Patrick J. Sullivan (Dept. Natural Resources), and Arthur L. Wilson (Dept. of Education) HDRU Contact: Ingrid Biedron (ib49@cornell.edu) Presentations: Biedron, I.B. and B.A. Knuth. Factors influencing

transition of regional fishery management councils to ecosystem-based fisheries management. Presentation at the Cornell University Department of Natural Resources Graduate Student Association Symposium. January 18, 2013, Ithaca, NY.

Biedron, I.B. and B.A. Knuth. Factors influencing

the transition to ecosystem-based fisheries management for the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils. Presentation at the Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference. April 8, 2013, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Biedron, I.B. and B.A. Knuth. Defining ecosystem-

based fisheries management: Comparisons between the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils. Poster presented at the Managing Our Nation’s Fisheries 3 Conference. May 7, 2013, Washington, D. C.

Biedron, I.B. and B.A. Knuth. Stakeholder

communication and the transition to ecosystem-based fisheries management for the Mid-Atlantic and New England Fishery Management Councils. Presentation at the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting. September 9, 2013, Little Rock, AK.

Biedron, I.B. and B.A. Knuth. A survey of stakeholder perspectives about ecosystem-based fisheries management and the New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Councils. Presentation at the Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Meeting. December 12, 2013, Annapolis, MD.

Pathogens and Invasive Species in the Great Lakes: Understanding Manager and Stakeholder

Responses Funded by: Great Lakes Fishery Commission Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Barbara Knuth, Richard Stedman, Nancy Connelly, and Nadine Heck HDRU Contact: Bruce Lauber (tbl3@cornell.edu) Publication: Heck, N., T.B. Lauber, and R.C. Stedman. 2013.

Pathogens and invasive species in the Great Lakes: Understanding manager response targeting bait dealers and anglers. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-09. Department of Natural Resources. College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Ithaca, NY. 41 pp.

Reducing Exposure to Toxics from Fish Consumption

Funded by: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Jeff Niederdeppe (Dept. of Communication), Barbara Knuth, and Nancy Connelly Collaborators: Great Lakes Consortium for Fish Consumption Advisories HDRU Contact: Bruce Lauber (tbl3@cornell.edu)

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Recreation Impacts of Aquatic Nuisance Species to the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Basins

Funded by: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Richard Stedman, Gregory Poe (Dept. of Economics), Nancy Connelly, Richard Ready (Pennsylvania State University), and Selmin Creamer HDRU Contact: Bruce Lauber (tbl3@cornell.edu) Publications: Evensen, D.T., S. Creamer, R.C. Stedman, and T.B.

Lauber. 2013. Potential effects of aquatic nuisance species on the behavior of recreational anglers, boaters, and beachgoers. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 43 pp.

Poe, G.L., T.B. Lauber, N.A. Connelly, S. Creamer,

R.C. Ready, and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Net benefits of recreational fishing in the Great Lakes Basin: A review of the literature. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-10. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 79 pp.

Presentations: Lauber, T.B., N.A. Connelly, R.C. Stedman, R.C.

Ready, G.L. Poe, and S. Creamer. 2013. Aquatic invasive species in the Great Lakes and Mississippi River systems: Economics, human behavior, and ecology. International Congress for Conservation Biology. Baltimore, MD. July 2013.

Poe, G., R. Ready, B. Lauber, N. Connelly, R.

Stedman, and S. Creamer. 2013. A combined revealed preference-stated preference model of recreational angling response to aquatic nuisance species in the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi and Ohio River Basins. Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Meeting. Banff, AB. June 2013.

Ready, R., G. Poe, B. Lauber, N. Connelly, R. Stedman, and S. Creamer. 2013. A combined revealed/state preference model for projecting the impact of invasive species on recreational angling in the Great Lakes, Upper Mississippi, and Ohio River Basins. W3133 Annual Meeting. Coeur D’Alene, ID. February 2013.

Great Lakes Health Collaboration to Reduce

Toxics Exposure Funded by: Minnesota Department of Health and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Jeff Niederdeppe (Dept. of Communication), Barbara Knuth, and Nancy Connelly Collaborators: Great Lakes Consortium for Fish Consumption Advisories HDRU Contact: Bruce Lauber (tbl3@cornell.edu)

Evaluation of New York State Anglers

Funded by: New York Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Bureau of Fisheries Investigators: Barbara Knuth and Nancy Connelly Collaborators: Shaun Keeler and Jeff Loukmas (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: Nancy Connelly (nac4@cornell.edu) Publication: Connelly, N.A. and B.A. Knuth. 2013. Black Bass

Anglers’ Experiences in New York and Their Views on Tournaments and Fisheries Management. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-3. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 31 pp.

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Great Lakes Fishery Commission Human Dimensions Research Theme Development

Funded by: Great Lakes Fishery Commission Investigators: Richard Stedman and Nadine Heck Collaborator: Marc Gaden (Great Lakes Fishery Commission, University of Michigan) HDRU Contact: Nadine Heck (tnh28@cornell.edu) Publication:

Heck, N., Stedman, R., and Gaden, M. (2013)

Human Dimension Research Needs for Great Lakes Fishery Management. Report prepared for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Ann Arbor, Michigan, 87 pp.

Presentations:

Heck, N., Stedman, R., and Gaden, M. (2013)

Integration Human Dimensions into Great Lakes Fishery Management: Opportunities and Challenges. Paper presented at the 25th International Congress for Conservation Biology, July 21-25, Baltimore, Maryland.

Heck, N., Stedman, R., and Gaden, M. (2013)

Human Dimension information needs for Great Lakes Fishery Management, paper presented at the 19th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management, June 4-8, Estes Park, Colorado.

Stedman, R., Heck, N. and Gaden, M. (2013)

Human Dimensions Research Needs for Great Lakes Fisheries, presented at the GLFC BOTE meeting September 26-27 2013, Minneapolis, MN.

Stedman, R., Heck, N., and Gaden, M. (2013) Great

Lakes Fishery Commission Human Dimensions Research Theme Development, presented at the GLFC BOTE meeting, March 2013, Grand Rapids, MI.

Other Publications and Presentations on Fisheries Resources Management and Policy: Publications: Committee on the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon

Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico, Ocean Studies Board (L. Mayer, Chair, M. Boufadel, J. Brenner, R. Carney, C. Cooper, J. Deming, D. Die, J. Eagle, J. Geraci, B. Knuth, K. Lee, J. Morris, S. Polasky, N. Rabalais, D. Yoskowitz). 2013. The Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on the Ecosystem Services of the Gulf of Mexico. The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C.

Connelly, N. A., S. Keeler, and B. A. Knuth. 2013.

Understanding angler preferences for species and water bodies: importance for New York’s future fisheries management. Human Dimensions of Wildlife 18(5):386-402.

Knuth, B.A., T.L., Brown, and K.M. Hunt. 2013.

Measuring the human dimensions of recreational fisheries. Chapter 21 in A. Zale, D. Parrish, and T. Sutton, eds. Fisheries Techniques, 3rd edition. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.

Presentations: Knuth, B.A., R. Stahl, and K. Waddell. 2013.

Briefing: An ecosystem services approach to assessing the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. 79th Meeting of the Ocean Studies Board, National Academy of Sciences. West Long Branch, NJ. July 2013.

Knuth, B.A. and L.A. Nielsen. 2013. Impact of 100

years of fisheries education, research, service, and leadership at Cornell University. Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY. April 2013.

Knuth, B.A. 2013. Education’s role in building

social capacity for fisheries and ocean stewardship. 80th Anniversary Symposium, Keynote Address, Japanese Society of Fisheries Science, Tokyo, Japan. March 2013.

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Knuth, B.A. 2013. Lessons from the Accidents at Fukushima Dai-Ichi. East Asian Studies Program. Cornell University. February 2013.

Photo to the right: HDRU graduate student Yoke Lee Lee with a juvenile whale shark found off Pitas, Sabah where she was doing her research. Photo by R. Jumin.

Forest Lands Management The HDRU has developed a continuous research thrust in the human dimensions of forest manage-ment. Examples include examining community collaboration in forest management and public awareness of, and attitudes toward, a range of forest management practices that enhance ecosystem management. In recent years we have engaged in a statewide survey of private forest owners in New York State and also studied human dimensions aspects of urban forests. Much of our applied research related to forest management has implications for Extension programs, thus we are continuing our close working relationship with Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Communicating Effectively for Enhanced Woodland Sustainability

Funded by: U.S. Forest Service Northeastern Area Investigators: J. Finley, A. Muth, and A. Purrington (Penn State University) Collaborators: Shorna Allred, Peter Smallidge, Gary Goff, and Maureen Mullen HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Presentation: Muth, A., Finely, J., Allred, S., Goff, G., Smallidge,

P., Mullen, M., and Purrington, A. Love your land? Make a plan: starting the woodland legacy planning conversation. 19th International Symposium on Society and Natural Resource Management, Estes Park Center, CO, June 7, 2013.

Encouraging Wildlife Habitat Management on

Private Woodlands Funded by: NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Investigators: Shorna Allred, Richard Stedman, Daniel Decker, Ashley Dayer, and Rachel Parks Collaborators: Daniel Rosenblatt, Mark Kandel, Mike Wasilco, Steven Joule, Matthew Swayze, Marcelo DelPuerto, and Paul Novak (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Publication: Dayer, A.A. (2013). “Advancing the study of private

landowner behavior: Understanding early successional forest habitat management.” Cornell University Dissertation.

Presentations: S. Allred. 2013. How to Talk with Landowners

about Young Forests. New England-New York Society of American Foresters Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, February 1, 2013.

S. Allred. 2013. Private Landowners and Young

Forests. Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Annual Conference, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 9, 2013.

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An Examination of Factors that Influence Residents’ Urban Forest Stewardship Behavior

Funded by: The Toward Sustainability Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Investigators: Shorna Allred, Christine Moskell, and Nina Bassuk (Dept. of Horticulture) Collaborators: Jeanne Grace (Parks and Forestry Division, Department of Public Works, City of Ithaca) and Pat McRae (Urban Horticulture Institute, Department of Horticulture) HDRU Contact: Christine Moskell (csm94@cornell.edu) Presentations: Moskell, C., S. Allred and N. Bassuk. 2013.

Evaluating strategies to encourage residents to water street trees. Partners in Community Forestry. Pittsburgh, PA. November 6-7.

Moskell, C., S. Allred and N. Bassuk. 2013. The

results of an educational intervention to encourage residents to water newly planted urban trees. 44th Annual Environmental Design Research Association Conference. Providence, Rhode Island. May 29-June 1.

Moskell, C. 2013. Community engaged research and

outreach for urban forest stewardship. Cornell University Graduate Engaged Research Conference. Ithaca, New York. May 21-22.

Moskell, C., S. Allred and N. Bassuk. 2013. The

effects of outreach on residents’ street tree watering behavior in Ithaca, NY. Cornell University Department of Natural Resources Graduate Research Symposium. January 17-18.

Toward Sustainable Urban Forest Governance: Strategies for Stakeholder Engagement in Tree

Planting and Stewardship

Funded by: The Ittleson Foundation and the Garden Club of America Investigators: Shorna Allred and Christine Moskell

Collaborators: Nancy Wells (Dept. of Design and Environmental Analysis) and Scott Peters (Dept. of Horticulture) HDRU Contact: Christine Moskell (csm94@cornell.edu) Publication: Moskell, C., and S. Broussard Allred. 2013.

Residents’ beliefs about responsibility for the stewardship of park trees and street trees in New York City. Landscape and Urban Planning 120: 85-95. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.08.002.

Presentations: Moskell, C. 2013. Studies on community

engagement in urban forest management across New York State. Garden Club of America Zone III Annual Meeting. Rye, NY. September 24.

Moskell, C. 2013. Connecting people to trees:

Strategies for community engagement in urban forestry. Garden Club of America Zone III Scholarship Committee Meeting. Manhattan, NY. March 24.

Addressing Private Forestland Parcelization in the Hudson River Watershed: An Integrated

Research and Extension Approach Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, Cornell Cooperative Extension Investigator: Shorna Allred Collaborator: Richard Stedman HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Presentation: S. Allred and A. L’Roe. 2013. The Role of Legacy in

the Decision-Making Process of Parcelizing Forest Landowners. Society of American Foresters National Convention, Charleston, SC, October 26, 2013.

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Woody Biofuel Production in New York: Building Capacity through Applied Social Science

Research Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Investigators: Shorna Allred, Peter Smallidge, and Nancy Connelly Collaborators: Brett Chedzoy (Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Schuyler County), Laurel Gailor (CCE Warren County), Guillermo Metz (CCE Tompkins), and Marilyn Wyman (CCE Greene County) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Publication: Connelly, N.A., Allred, S.B., and P.J. Smallidge.

2013. Foresters’ and Logger’s Views on Woody Biofuels in New York. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-02, Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 29 pp.

Other Publications on Forest Lands Management

Connelly, N. A., S. B. Allred, and P. J. Smallidge.

2013. Foresters’ and Loggers’ Views on Woody Biofuels in New York. Human Dimensions Research Unit Publ. Series 13-02. Dept of Nat. Resour., Coll. Agric. and Life Sci., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY. 29 pp.

Farrell, M., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Landowner attitudes towards maple syrup production in the Northern Forest: A Survey of Forest Owners with ≥100 Acres in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 30(4):184-187

Rogers, S. C., Hoover, W.L., Allred, S.B. 2013.

Public acceptability of forest management practices at Morgan-Monroe State Forest. In: Swihart, R.K., Saunders, M.R., Kalb, R.A., Haulton, G.S, Michler, C.H., eds. 2013. The Hardwood Ecosystem Experiment: a framework for studying responses to forest management. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS.

Schnur, E., Allred, S. B. and D. Kittredge. 2013.

Conservation awareness in New York State: Do family forest landowners know their conservation options? Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 30(4): 175-183.

Withrow-Robinson, B., Allred, S.B., Landgren, C.,

and M. Sisock. 2013. Planning Across Generations: Helping Family Landowners maintain their Ties to the Land. Journal of Extension 51(5): Article Number 5FEA6. Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2013october/a6.php.

Natural Resources Communication and Education Communication and education (C&E) programs and courses are fundamental to natural resource man-agement. State and federal agencies, universities, state cooperative extension services, and nongovernment organizations conduct a wide variety of programs and courses. C&E programs perform an important role in bringing informed public involvement to decision making and influencing public perception of and behavior toward natural resources and their management.

The traditional focus of C&E efforts has been to raise informational levels of the public. The HDRU fulfills this role both through its teaching and through a variety of Extension and outreach programs. It is also frequently involved in conducting C&E program evaluations.

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Sustainable Forest Management for Wildlife Funded by: CALS Land Grant Graduate Fellowship & State Wildlife Grant (through NY Forest Owner’s Association) & Audubon New York Investigators: Shorna Allred, Richard Stedman, and Ashley Dayer Collaborators: Richard Taber, Kristi Sullivan, Gary Goff, Stephen Morreale (Cornell Cooperative Extension), and Jillian Liner (Lab of Ornithology) HDRU Contact: Ashley Dayer (aad86@cornell.edu)

Understanding the Social Relationship between Legal and Illegal Hunting Attitudes and

Behaviors in Nam Et Phou Louey National Protected Area, Lao PDR

Funded by: Wildlife Conservation Society Lao PDR Program Investigators: Marianne Krasny and Richard Stedman Collaborators: Troy Hansel, Muas Yachithor, Khamdee Earnthavanh, and Paul Eshoo (Wildlife Conservation Society – Lao PDR Program) HDRU Contact: Santi Saypanya (ss2829@cornell.edu) Publication: Understanding Social Relationship between Legal

and Illegal Hunting Attitude and Behavior in Nam Et Phou Louey National Protected Area, Lao PDR.

Presentation: Saypanya, Santi, Hansel, Troy, Johnson, Arlyne,

Bianchessi, Annalisa, & Sadowsky, Brooke. (2013). Using social marketing as an education tool on tiger conservation. Poster presented at North American Association for Environmental Education, 10th Research Symposium in Baltimore, MD, October 7-9, 2013.

Focus group participants discussing the village territory where they hunt in Laos. Photo by Santi Saypanya.

Attitudinal Landscapes of Educators and Students on Renewable Energy Systems as Impacted by Directed Renewable Energy

Education Funded by: USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Bioenergy Program for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning at Cornell University Investigators: Richard Stedman and Nirav Patel Collaborators: Dr. Corinne J. Rutzke (Dept of Biological & Environmental Engineering) HDRU Contact: Nirav Patel (nsp6@cornell.edu) Presentations: Patel, N. and Stedman, R. 2013. Attitudinal

landscapes of educators and students on Renewable Energy Systems (RES) as impacted by directed Renewable Energy Education (REE). Presented at Baltimore Ecosystem Study Annual Meeting, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Baltimore, MD, October 22-23, 2013.

Patel, N., Rutzke, C., and Stedman, R. 2013.

Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Partners (BBEP): High school students’ and educators’ attitudes toward Renewable Energy Education (REE). Presented at the Association for the Advancement of Industrial Crops (AAIC) meeting along with the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)- Bioenergy Program for National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Washington D.C., October 13-15, 2013.

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Patel, N. and Stedman, R. 2013. High school students’ perception of Climate Change and Renewable Energy Education (REE). Presented at the Cornell Interdisciplinary Climate Change Forum. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY March 28, 2013.

Patel, N. and Rutzke, C. 2013. Use of i-clickers for Entry and Exit Surveys at Professional Development Education Programs. Presented at Biomass and Bioproducts Education Program, Annual Meeting. Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, March 10-14, 2013.

Water Resource Management and Policy The HDRU collaborates with other university researchers, watershed professionals, mangers, and state and federal agencies to conduct research that helps address critical water resource management and policy issues of relevance to land and water managers and policymakers.

Additionally, research is also focused on understanding the behavior of riparian landowners as they are key to protecting water quality. Many watershed systems are increasingly dominated by non-agricultural interests, yet policy initiatives (both incentive programs and regulatory regimes) are still designed primarily around agriculture. This leaves significant gaps in understanding and effectiveness.

Shorna Allred, along with faculty from Mahidol University, interview a farmer in Thailand about impacts

of the 2011 flood. Photo by Dr. Monthria Yuttitham.

Designing an Evaluation Protocol for the Hudson River Estuary Program’s Biodiversity Outreach

Program Funded by: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), Hudson Estuary Program

Investigators: Shorna Allred, Richard Stedman, and Maureen Mullen Collaborators: Laura Heady and Karen Strong (NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Presentation: Allred, S., Stedman, R., Mullen, M., Strong, K. and

L. Heady. A Program Evaluation of the Biodiversity Outreach and Technical Assistance Program. Hudson River Estuary Management Advisory Committee Meeting, Staatsburg, NY, November 13, 1013.

Institutional Dimensions of Ecosystem-based Management among New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Council Agencies

Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Investigator: Carrie N. Simon Collaborators: Barbara A. Knuth, Y. Connie Yuan (Dept. of Communication), Wesley Sine (Johnson Graduate School of Management), and Steven Wolf (Dept. of Natural Resources) HDRU Contact: Carrie N. Simon (cns44@cornell.edu)

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Factors Influencing Landowner Riparian Conservation

Funded by: USDA Conservation Enhancement Assessment Program; AFRI Investigator: Richard Stedman Collaborators: Todd Walter (Dept. of Biology and Environmental Engineering); and Zach Easton (Virginia Tech University) HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu) Publications: Armstrong, A., R.C., Stedman, B. Roessler, and S.

Cuppett. 2013. Beyond the trees: Community as a riparian restoration outcome and resource. Impact: Journal of the American Water Resources Association 15(2):6-8.

Armstrong, A.L., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Rural

landowner identity and efficacy in a transitioning agricultural watershed. Society and Natural Resources 25(11):1193-1203.

Human Dimensions of Watershed Stewardship Funded by: NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Hudson River Estuary Program and Federal Formula Funds (Hatch and Smith-Lever) Investigators: Shorna Allred and Maureen Mullen Collaborators: Allison Chatrchyan and Carolyn Klocker (Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Dutchess County); Elizabeth LoGiudice (CCE Green and Columbia Counties); Gretchen Rae and Brent Gotsch (CCE Ulster County) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Presentation: S. Allred. 2013. Understanding Riparian Forest

Landowner Decisions to Establish and Maintain Buffers. Society of American Foresters National Convention, Charleston, SC, October 26, 2013.

Community Adaptation to Flooding in a Changing Climate: Assessing Municipal Officials’ Actions, Decision-making, and Barriers

Funded by: NYS Water Resources Institute and the NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program with support from the NYS Environmental Protection Fund Investigators: Shorna Allred and Gretchen Gary HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu)

Publication: Gary, G., Allred, S., LoGiudice, E., Chatrchyan , A.,

Baglia, R. and T. Mayhew. 2013. Community Adaptation to Flooding in a Changing Climate: Municipal Officials’ Actions, Decision-Making, and Barriers. Cornell University, Community and Rural Development Institute (CARDI) and Human Dimensions Research Unit (HDRU), Research and Policy Brief, Issue 57 (December).

Presentations: Allred, S.B. and G. Gary. 2013. Community Flood

Resilience and Climate Change in the Hudson River Estuary: Assessing Municipal Officials’ Actions, Decision-Making, and Barriers. Research Seminar, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand, July 17, 2013.

Allred, S.B. and G. Gary. 2013. Community Flood

Resilience and Climate Change in the Hudson River Estuary: Assessing Municipal Officials’ Actions, Decision-Making, and Barriers. Research Seminar, Prince of Songkla University, Phuket, Thailand, July 10, 2013.

Gary, G. and S.B. Allred. 2013. Community

Adaptation to Flooding in a Changing Climate: Assessing Municipal Officials’ Actions, Decision-Making, and Barriers. Featured Presentation. Hudson River Watershed Alliance's Roundtable Discussion for Watershed Groups. Norrie Point Environmental Center, NY, July 10, 2013.

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Natural Resources Policy, Planning, and Evaluation Natural resources planning involves public input, particularly at the beginning of the planning cycle and at the end, through assessment or evaluation, as input to plan revision. The HDRU has undertaken research and outreach in a number of situations involving planning.

Building Local Capacity for Environmental Resource Conservation in the Face of Change

Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cornell Cooperative Extension Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Lincoln Larson, and David Kay (Cornell Community and Regional Development Institute)

Collaborators: Heidi Kretser (Wildlife Conservation Society), Laura Heady, and Karen Strong (Cornell Cooperative Extension & NYSDEC) HDRU Contact: Lincoln Larson (lrl66@cornell.edu) Presentation: Larson, L. R., Lauber, T. B., & Kay, D. L. (2013).

Factors influencing local government capacity to respond to environmental change: case studies in New York State. International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Estes Park, CO: June 4-8, 2013.

The Well-Being of Resource-Dependent Communities The well-being of communities that depend on the extraction and processing of forest-based resources is crucially important to definitions of the sustainability and resilience of the resource dependent industries. Defining this relationship is somewhat difficult, based on the myriad indicators of well-being, and multiple definitions of dependence. The conceptual basis of this overall trajectory has broadened from “forest dependence” to “resource dependence” (reflecting emerging projects in the area of mineral and agricultural-based dependence). Further, wholesale changes in the structure and governance of the forest industry may pose significant challenges to community sustainability.

Resource Dependence and the Well-Being of Rural Communities

Funded by: Univ. of Alberta, Univ. of New Brunswick Collaborators: John Parkins (University of Alberta) and Tom Beckley (University of New Brunswick)

HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu) Publication: Stedman, R. C. 2013. Resource dependence and

rural development. p 77-91 in G.P. Green (Ed). Handbook of Rural Development. Northampton, MA, Edward Elgar Publ.

Presentations:

Stedman, R.C. and K.G. Tidball. 2013. Positive

resource dependency in urban systems: applying urgent biophilia and restorative topophilia. Invited speaker, Stockholm Seminar Series, Linné Hall, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, SWE . May 20.

Stedman, R.C. 2013. The Sustainability and

Resilience of Resource Dependent Communities: Critiquing our Assumptions. Invited speaker, Young Social Scientists’ Sustainability Research Forum. Institute for Social Sciences and the Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future. Cornell University, Mar. 21.

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Regional Impacts of Energy Development on the

Social, Economic, and Ecological Well-being of Rural Communities in the Northeast

Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Hatch), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (Canada) Investigator: Richard Stedman Collaborators: Susan Christopherson (Dept. of City and Regional Planning), Susan Riha (Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) Rod Howe (CALS Cooperative Extension); Stephan Goetz (Northeast Center for Rural Development); Warren Allmon and Robert Ross (Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institute); Kathy Brasier, Tim Kelsey, Fern Willits, Ted Alter (The Pennsylvania State University), Jeffrey Jacquet (South Dakota State University), Sol Hart (Univ of Michigan) and Christopher Clarke (George Mason University) HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu) Publications: Brasier, K.J., D.K. McLaughlin, D. Rhubart, R.C.

Stedman, M.R. Filteau, and J.B. Jacquet. Risk Perceptions of Natural Gas Development in the Marcellus Shale. Environmental Practice 15:108-122.

Evensen D, Clarke C, Stedman R. 2013. A New York

or Pennsylvania state of mind: social representations of gas development in the Marcellus Shale. Journal of Environmental

Studies and Sciences. 1-13. DOI:

10.1007/s13412-013-0153-9. Jacquet, J. B., & Stedman, R. C. (2013). Perceived

Impacts from Wind Farm and Natural Gas Development in Northern Pennsylvania. Rural Sociology, 78(4), 450-472.

Jacquet, J., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. The risk of

social-psychological disruption as an impact of energy development and environmental change. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. (ahead of print). 1-20.

Presentations: Clarke, C.E.,D.T.N Evensen, J.B. Jacquet, and R.C.

Stedman. 2013. Emerging Risk Communication Challenges Associated with Shale Gas Development . Paper presented at the 19th International Symposium for Society and Natural Resources, Estes Park, CO: June 4-8.

Evensen D. 2013. Shale gas development: the limits

of science, the role of philosophy. Paper presented at: Marcellus Shale Educators Conference. March; Ithaca, NY.

Evensen D. 2013. Social representations of natural

gas development via hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale. Paper presented at: Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Conference. June; Pittsburgh, PA.

Evensen D. 2013. The ethics of ‘fracking’:

philosophy’s contributions to policy. Paper presented at: International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. June; Estes Park, CO.

Evensen, D.T.E., C.E. Clarke, and R.C. Stedman.

2013. Fractured discourse: social representations in newspaper coverage of shale gas development. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, New York, NY: Aug 6-9.

Evensen D, Clarke C, Stedman R. 2013. Social

representations of shale gas development in New Brunswick, New York, and Pennsylvania. Paper presented at: Rural Sociological Society Annual Mtg. August; New York, NY.

Jacquet, J., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Using risk

analysis to assess social-psychological disruption as an impact of energy development and environmental change. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, New York, NY: Aug 6-9.

Jacquet, J.B., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Using risk

analysis to assess social-psychological disruption as an impact of energy development and environmental change. Paper presented at the 19th International Symposium for Society and Natural Resources, Estes Park, CO: June 4-8.

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Stedman, R.C. 2013. Are we “post-post productivist?”: Reflecting on the implications of energy development for rural resilience. Paper presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, New York, NY: Aug 6-9.

Impacts of Second Home Development in the Northern Forest

Funded by: Northeast States Research Cooperative (NSRC), Texas A&M University Collaborators: Brian Eiesenhauer, (Plymouth State Univ., NH); Jim Finley and A. E. Luloff (Penn State Univ.), Todd Gabe (University of Maine), and Walt Kuentzel (University of Vermont) HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu)

Publication: Armstrong, A., and R.C. Stedman. 2013. Culture

clash and seasonal homeownership in the U.S. Northern Forest. Rural Sociology 78(3):318-345.

Improving Contributions of Local Nature-based Recreation to Sustainable Environmental Quality

of Rural Communities Funded by: Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cornell Cooperative Extension Investigators: Bruce Lauber, Daniel Decker, Richard Stedman, Caren Cooper, and Lincoln Larson Collaborators: David Kay (Cornell Community and Regional Development Institute), Kristi Sullivan (Cornell Cooperative Extension), Michael Schiavone (NYSDEC), and Tom Lyons (NYS Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historical Preservation) HDRU Contact: Lincoln Larson (lrl66@cornell.edu)

Sense of Place Sense of place, or the meanings and attachments that individuals and/or groups hold for a spatial setting, has become an important construct in resource management. Sense of place is based on experience with a setting that is based on a certain level of ecological quality of the setting, as well as direct provision of experiential opportunities by resource managers. The goal of this research is to understand the ecological and community-based factors associated with the local meanings of landscape, understand how these meanings are tied to local attachment, how this attachment potentially predicts human behavior, and how these relationships are similar or different across a wide range of socio-ecological settings. A mix of

qualitative and quantitative methods have been utilized for discrete studies under this subject.

Sense of Place and Environmental Education

Investigators: Alexey Kudryatsev, Marianne Krasny, and Richard Stedman (Cornell University); and Nicole Ardoin (Stanford University)

HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu)

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Publications: Amsden, B., Stedman, R.C., and L. Kruger. 2013.

Volunteer meanings in the making of place. Pp 109-118 in Place and Decision-Making (D. Williams and W. Stewart, Eds). Netherlands, Springer.

Brehm, J., B. Eisenhauer, and R.C. Stedman. 2013.

Environmental concern: Examining the role of place meaning and place attachment. Society and Natural Resources 26(5):522-538.

Stedman, R.C., and N. Ardoin. 2013. Mobility,

power, and scale in place-based environmental education. Pp. 231-252 in M.E. Krasny and J. Dillon (Eds.). Trading Zones in Environmental Education. New York: Peter Lang.

Stedman, R.C., B. Amsden, T.M Beckley, K.G. Tidball. 2013. Photo Based Methods for Understanding Place Meanings as Foundations of Attachment. Pp. 112-124 in L. Manzo and P. Devine-Wright (Eds) Place Attachment: Advances in Theory, Methods and Research. London, Routledge.

Stedman, R.C., and M.L. Ingalls. 2013. Topophilia,

Biophilia, and Greening in the Red Zone. Pp. 129-144 in K.G. Tidball and M.E. Krasny (Eds.) Greening in the Red Zone: Disaster, Resilience, and Community Greening. London, UK: Springer.

Climate Change Climate change affects both the ecological and social systems as well as how they interact. HDRU research is focused on understanding climate change policy, climate vulnerabilities at the community level, climate attitudes and behavior, and the interactions between ecological and social systems in the context of a changing climate.

Assessing Attitudes to Flood Risk and Climate Change Before and After the 2011 Floods in New

York State Funded by: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Sector Applications Research Program (SARP) Investigators: Shorna Allred, Maureen Mullen, and Art DeGaetano (Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu)

Empowering Land Managers to Increase

Resilience of New York’s Natural Resources in the Face of Regional Climate Change

Funded by: Cornell University Cooperative Extension (Smith-Lever) Investigators: Shorna Allred, Rebecca Schneider, and Allison Chatrchyan Collaborators: Rebecca Schneider, Kristi Sullivan, Peter Smallidge, Gary Goff, Paul Curtis, Maureen Mullen (Cornell Cooperative Extension); David Wolfe and Jonathan Comstock (Dept. of Horticulture); and Allison Chatrchyan (Cooperative Extension- Dutchess County) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu)

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Characterization of Attitudes among Hudson River Estuary Watershed Municipal Officials

about Climate Change Adaptation Funded by: New York Water Resources Institute with support from NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) Hudson River Estuary Program Investigators: Shorna Allred, Maureen Mullen, and Allison Chatrchyan (Cornell Institute for Climate Change in Agriculture) Collaborators: Kristin Marcell and Scott Cuppett (NYSDEC Hudson River Estuary Program) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Presentations:

Allred, S.B. 2013. The Climate Crisis and Local

Action for Change. Climate Smart and Climate Ready: Protecting and Preparing Our Communities Conference, Ithaca, NY, April 20, 2013.

Allred, S.B. and A.M. Chatrchyan. 2013. Local

Government Officials and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. Cornell Interdisciplinary Climate Change Forum, David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, Ithaca, NY, March 28, 2013.

Analyzing Climate Change Policy Capacity Funded by: Social Science and Humanities Research Council (of Canada) Investigators: Richard Stedman and Adam Wellstead (Michigan Technological University); and Debra Davidson (University of Alberta) HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu)

Rural New York State Residents’ Perceptions of

Climate Change Funded by: National Science Foundation Investigators: Richard Stedman, Shorna Allred, and Robert Ross (Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu)

Understanding and Managing Social-ecological Systems Managers and researchers increasingly must grapple with the problem of understanding and managing large, complex, social-ecological systems. Such ‘coupled systems’ are populated with social and ecological problems, and new types of uncertainty that emerge at the intersection of society and ecology.

Photo to the right: In rural Haiti, conservation

payments can effectively conserve targeted habitat (left). However, cash payments tend to benefit men more, whereas concomitant land use restrictions tend to disadvantage women more. Photo by James Goetz.

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Drivers and Impacts of Biodiversity Conservation

in Haiti Funded by: US Fish and Wildlife Service Investigators: Richard Stedman and James Goetz Collaborators: Foundation Seguin (Vermont Center for Ecostudies, German Agency for International Cooperation) HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu) Presentations:

Konsèvasyon biyodivèsite a ak peman dirèk nan Vale

Berak, Pak Nasyonal Lavizit, Ayiti (Biodiversity conservation using direct incentives in Berak Valley, National Park La Visite, Haiti). Atelier de Travail sur la Création de l’Aire Protégée Municipale d’Anse-à-Pitres, 7-8 August 2013.

Regleman altènativ pou konsèvasyon biyodivèsite

nan Ayiti (Policy Alternatives for Biodiversity Conservation in Haiti). Southeast Department Environmental Roundtable, Jacmel, Haiti, 25 October, 2013.

Exploring Rural Community Resilience of Ek Balam in Yucatan Mexico

Funded by: Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Investigator: Ted Lawrence Collaborator: Erin Lennox (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) HDRU Contact: Ted Lawrence (tjl222@cornell.edu) Presentation:

Lawrence, T.J. Exploring rural community resilience

of Ek Balam in Yucatan Mexico, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and Oxfam America Workshop October 2013.

Social Drivers and Ecological Impacts of Exurban

Land Use Funded by: National Science Foundation and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Investigators: John Vogel, Shorna Allred, Bruce Lauber, and Heidi Kretser (Wildlife Conservation Society) Collaborators: Dr. Michale Glennon and Dr. Sarah Reed (Wildlife Conservation Society); and Josh Cerra (Cornell University – Landscape Architecture) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Presentation:

J. T. Vogel, S. B. Allred, H. E. Kretser, T, B. Lauber.

2013. Understanding Exurban Landowner Decision-Making in the Adirondacks and the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Poster presented at International Symposium on Society and Resource Management 2013 Annual Meeting, Estes Park, CO.

Graduate Student John Vogel and members of the WCS summer field crew compare notes after a point count in

Ennis, Montana, as part of a study on impacts of exurban land-use on avian species. Photo by S. Reed/WCS.

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Linking Social-ecological System Resilience and

Biodiversity to Community-based Natural Resource Management Regimes of Mayan

Communities in Yucatan, Mexico Funded by: Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Investigator: Ted Lawrence HDRU Contact: Ted Lawrence (tjl222@cornell.edu)

Publication:

Lawrence, T.J. Toward empirically measuring the

impact opposing development ideologies have on rural social-ecological sustainability: An illustration in Yucatan, Mexico. Submitted to Conservation and Society on 8/2/13 and currently under review.

Presentation:

Lawrence, T.J. Toward empirically measuring rural

social-ecological sustainability under opposing development ideologies: An illustration in Yucatan Mexico. Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting, August 2013.

Public Trust Thinking, Policy and Practice Arguably, the entire enterprise of fish and wildlife management in the United States is grounded in the idea that these resources are public trust resources. Yet surprisingly, this is a poorly understood concept among many natural resource scientists, managers, stakeholders and policy makers. HDRU faculty, staff and students are collaborating with other academics within Cornell and from other institutions, as well as thought leaders in natural resource agencies and NGOs, to focus on the concept of public trust, and in particular how the concept may contribute to sustainability through policy that guides natural resources conservation and management. Public trust is a complicated concept, with deep, historical legal roots and profound implications for professional practice by natural resource managers. Remarkably, there is as yet no single, clear articulation of public trust policy – various articulations exist worldwide, including at least 50 in the US. Our intention is to improve understanding of the implications of public trust administration (i.e., policy and management of public trust natural resources) and explore how ambitious, thoughtful public trust policy might help society respond to persistent and emerging challenges in resource conservation, management and sustainability. Our approach involves inquiry, workshops, presentations and writing for various audiences.

National Workshop Dan Decker co-organized a special session titled “What Does it Mean to Manage Wildlife as if Public Trust Really Matters?” for the North American Wildlife and Natural resources Conference in March 2013. His collaborators were: Ann Forstchen (FL Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission), Cynthia Jacobson (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service), Christian Smith (Wildlife Management Institute), John Organ (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service), Darragh Hare (Cornell University).

Reading Group and Workshop on Developing Foundations for Public Trust Policy

Funded by: Polson Institute for Global Development and the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future Investigators: Daniel Decker, Charles Geisler (Development Sociology), and Bernd Blossey (Natural Resources) HDRU Contact: Darragh Hare (cdh232@cornell.edu)

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Other Publication and Presentation on Public

Trust Thinking: Publication: Decker, D. J., A. B. Forstchen, J. F. Organ, C. A.

Smith, S. H. Riley, C A. Jacobson, G R. Batcheller, and W. F. Siemer. 2013. Impact management: An approach to fulfilling public trust responsibilities of wildlife agencies.

Wildlife Society Bulletin 37 (4). DOI: 10.1002/wsb.380

Presentation: Decker, DJ, Forstchen, AB, Jacobson, CA, Smith,

CA, Organ, JF, and Hare, CD. 2013. What Does it Mean to Manage Wildlife as if Public Trust Really Matters? 78th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, March 25-30, Arlington, VA.

Summary of Extension and Outreach Activities

Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Lao PDR

Funded by: The World Bank, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Greater Mekong Programme Office Investigators: Micah Ingalls, Sidavone Chanthavong (WWF-Laos), Geoffrey Blate and Raji Dhital (WWF-Greater Mekong Programme Office) Collaborators: Vanxay Bouttanavong (Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Lao PDR) and Bouathong Theothavong (MONRE, Lao PDR) HDRU Contact: Micah Ingalls (mli6@cornell.edu) Summary Statement: The Lao People’s Democratic Republic is considered an ‘extreme risk’ for climate change vulnerability given its high poverty rate and degree of resource dependency, and the expected severity of climate change impacts. Adaptation planning has focused primarily on infrastructural and other ‘grey solutions,’ without sufficient regard for alternative or complementary ecosystem-based approaches which harness ecosystem services for adaptation. The project developed and field-tested a framework in Lao PDR for incorporating ecosystem based approaches into climate change adaptation planning and national and subnational levels.

Trainings/Workshops: National Inception Workshop of the Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation Project, January 2013, Department of Disaster Management and Climate Change, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Lao PDR. Field Training Workshop: Participatory Approaches to Ecosystem-based Adaptation Planning, March 2013, Champasak Provincial Office of Natural Resources and Environment. National Consultation Workshop for Ecosystem-based Approaches, August 2013, MONRE, Lao PDR. Presentation: Ingalls, M. “Ecosystem-based approaches to climate

change adaptation: lessons from Lao PDR” Third National Climate Change Forum, National Climate Change Committee of the Kingdom of Cambodia. Sofitel, Phnom Penh. November 2013.

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Instructional Support for Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Programs (BBEP)

Funded by: Bioenergy and Bioproducts Education Program (BBEP) under the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)-Bioenergy Program for National Institute of Food and Agriculture Investigators: Dr. Corinne J. Rutzke (Dept of Biological & Environmental Engineering), Richard Stedman, and Nirav Patel Collaborators: Dr. Mingxin Guo (Delaware State University), Tiffany Flemming (Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research), Dr. Madhumi Mitra and Dr. Abhijit Nagchaudhuri (University of Maryland); Zywia Wojnar (Cornell Cooperative Extension), Dennis Hall (Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center); Leah Bug (Penn State), Dr. Serpil Guran (Rutgers EcoComplex), and Dr. David DeVallance (West Virginia State University) HDRU Contact: Nirav Patel (nsp6@cornell.edu) Summary Statement: The Bioenergy & Bioproducts Education Programs (BBEP) provides, professional development, hands-on teaching tools that are focused on Science, Technology, Engineering, Agriculture and Math (STEAM) educators, and fulfills needs of STEAM educators who aspire to leadership in teaching about sustainability. Trainings/Workshops: As part of the collaboration with the program, HDRU member (Nirav Patel) actively provided teaching support. He also facilitated, led, and managed several workshops that trained educators on teaching curricula as it pertains to renewable energy, specifically bioenergy and bioproducts. July 8-12, 2013. Bioenergy and Bioproducts at West Virginia University, with special focus on wood energy, biomass from pulp and wood industry. July 22-26, 2013. Bioenergy and Bioproducts at Pennsylvania State University with emphasis on cellulosic biomass and extension agencies.

Presentations: Patel, N. Guest Speaker for Visiting Students at

Boyce Thompson Institute, Fillmore High School Education Day, BTI, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, February 14, 2013

Patel, N. Implemented and conducted as part of the

student surveys in 2012-13 multiple topical discussions ranging from energy, Conversion of grass to ethanol, Bio-digesters, Presidential positions on energy, and STEM careers.

Graduate student Nirav Patel observing the master

teacher training participants at work in the teaching lab at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at

Cornell University.

Thinking Like a Manager Funded by: Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) Investigators: Daniel Decker, Richard Stedman, and Nancy Connelly Collaborators: Shawn Riley (Michigan State University), Elizabeth Pienaar (University of Florida) HDRU Contact: Daniel Decker (djd6@cornell.edu) Workshop: Social Science Theory and Applications Workshop (January 8-10, 2013)

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Support for Landowners and Community Members on Impacts and Strategies of Energy

Development

Funded by: Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future, Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Investigator: Richard Stedman Collaborators: David Kay, Jeffrey Jacquet (South Dakota State University), Susan Christopherson (Dept. of City and Regional Planning), Susan Riha (Dept. of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences) Rod Howe (CALS Cooperative Extension); Warren Allmon and Robert Ross (Cornell University and the Paleontological Research Institute); Kathy Brasier, Tim Kelsey, Fern Willits, Ted Alter (The Pennsylvania State University), HDRU Contact: Richard Stedman (rcs6@cornell.edu) Summary Statement: This program provides advice to landowners and community decision makers surrounding the strategies and impact management surrounding potential energy development in the Marcellus Shale region of the Northeast United States and beyond. Trainings/Workshops/Presentations:

Anderson, S, Kay, D and Howe, R. Public Issues Education. Best Practices in Marcellus Shale Education Conference, Ithaca NY, March 19, 2013.

Evensen D. 2013. Public perceptions of shale gas

development in the Twin Tiers. Chenango County Municipal Leaders Conference. November 14; Norwich, NY.

Kay, David et al. 2013. Conference organization,

Local and Regional Options for Energy Climate Change Resiliency, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY, September 13, 2013.

Kay, David and George Frantz. Tour of Bradford

County Fracking Sites, for researchers involved in W3001: The Great Recession, Its Aftermath, and Patterns of Rural and Small Town Demographic Change, September 28, 2013.

Kay, D. 2013. Natural Gas: Patterns. Chenango County Municipal Leaders Conference. November 14; Norwich, NY.

Kay D, Evensen D. 2013. Natural gas: Valuation and

related topics. Rural Schools Association. January 9; Alfred, NY.

Kay, D. 2013. Renewable Energy and Residential

Property Values: What Do Researchers Conclude? New York State Assessor’s Association, Lake Placid Crowne Plaza, October 2, 2013.

Kay, D, Howe, R. 2013. Energy Efficiency,

Conservation, and Renewable Energy: Community Decision Making Processes, Tools and Resources, Presentation CaRDI Community Development Institute, July 17, 2013

Kay, D. 2013. Pathways to Transformative Change:

A Long and Winding Road to a Low Carbon Future? Polson Institute for Global Development, An Engaged Conversation – with Liz Walker, Ecovillage, April 25, 2013

Kay, D. 2013 Community Planning, Climate

Change and Uncertainty in a Home Rule State, Panelist: Climate Impacts and Local Response, Climate Smart, Climate Ready Conference, Ithaca NY, April 20, 2013

Kay, David. The Big Picture and Fiscal

Considerations, panel on Shale Gas Drilling Natural Gas Development, NYS Association of Towns Annual Meeting, February 19, 2013.

Symposium on Coyote Research William Siemer presented a synthesis of research on coyote-related experiences, attitudes, and perceptions of risk in Westchester County, New York, at a full-day symposium on coyote research sponsored by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) (28 meeting participants; 6.5 hours contact time; meeting purpose: provide an opportunity for NYSDEC’s university partners to present current research results and discuss the broader implications of this research for management actions by NYSDEC).

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Outreach on Legacy Planning for Landowners

Funded by: U.S. Forest Service Northeastern Area Investigators: Shorna Allred and Maureen Mullen Collaborators: Peter Smallidge and Gary Goff (Cornell University); Jim Finley, Allyson Muth, and Andrew Purrington (Penn State University) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Summary: Shorna Allred and Maureen Mullen have instituted an extension program designed to reduce the risk associated with the intergenerational transfer of family forestlands. Multiple legacy planning workshops and educational activities for New York woodland owners, their families, and those that work with woodland owners, were held in 2013. The workshops focused on motivating families to begin communicating about the future of the family’s land, including discussions about the land’s sentimental and financial value, defining goals and challenges for the land and family, how to plan a family meeting, and how to groom successors. The workshops also focus on estate planning and the legal and financial tools needed to transfer the land to successors, heirs, or other caretakers of the land. We have developed a social networking and legacy planning website for woodland landowners and other stakeholders. Workshops: Woodland Legacy Planning: Love Your Land? Make a Plan. New Outreach Tools for Legacy Planning

1 hour webinar presentation, May 21, 2013 (4 live participants, recording sent to 37 participants: woodland owner peer volunteers, agency staff, NGO staff, CCE educators)

1 hour webinar presentation, June 25, 2013 (28 live participants, recording sent to 95 participants: Extension educators, service foresters, NGO staff, woodland owner peer volunteers)

Love Your Land? What’s Your Plan? Legacy Planning for Private Forest Landowners

1 hour presentation and discussion, March 16, 2013, Troy, NY (49 participants: private forest landowners)

Publications: Muth, A., Finely, J., Allred, S., Goff, G., Smallidge,

P., Mullen, M., and Purrington, A., 2013. Love your land? Make a plan: A Woodland Legacy Planning Brochure.

Muth, A., Finely, J., Allred, S., Goff, G., Smallidge,

P., Mullen, M., and Purrington, A., 2013. Love your land? Make a plan: A Guide to Starting A Legacy Planning Conversation.

Muth, A., Finely, J., Allred, S., Goff, G., Smallidge,

P., Mullen, M., and Purrington, A., 2013. Love your land? Make a plan: Carrying Stewardship Forward PowerPoint and Talking Points.

Website: http://SuccessionPlanning.Ning.com

Integrating Human Dimensions in Wildlife Management

Dan Decker, Bill Siemer and Shawn Riley (MSU) contributed a chapter to the textbook, Wildlife Management & Conservation: Contemporary Principles & Practices, published by Johns Hopkins University in 2013. Decker et al. also contributed to a forthcoming journal article on impact management and managing wildlife as a public trust. These products represent continuation of a decade-long project to stimulate integrative thinking by natural resource management students and practitioners. Publication:

Decker, D. J., S. J. Riley, and W. F. Siemer. 2013.

Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management. Pages 34-50 (chapter 4) in P. Krausman and J. W. Cain III (Ed.) Wildlife management: contemporary principles and practices. Johns Hopkins Press. Baltimore, MD.

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Strategies for Effectively Communicating about

the Management of Young Forests Funded by: Wildlife Management Institute, Ruffed Grouse Society Investigators: Jim Oehler (New Hampshire), Neil Gifford (Albany Pine Bush Preserve Commission), Shorna Allred, Chuck Fergus (Wildlife Management Institute), Terri Edwards, and Megan Racey (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Collaborators: Andy Weik (Ruffed Grouse Society), Marcelo Del Puerto (NYS DEC Bureau of Wildlife), Mike Pruss (PA Game Commission), Judy Stokes (Wildlife Management Institute), Kelly Boland (Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge), Jay Jeffries (VA Department of Game and Inland Fisheries), Paul Hamelin (VT Fish and Wildlife Dept.), Joan Kennedy (NYSDEC), and Ken Desmarais (NH Division of Forests and Lands) HDRU Contact: Shorna Allred (srb237@cornell.edu) Summary Statement: With changing land use practices and suppression of natural disturbance, early successional forest habitat and related species are in decline across the Northeast. Young forests support Golden-winged Warbler, American Woodcock, and at least 90 different birds, mammals, reptiles, and insects that depend on this type of habitat. Historically, this habitat was prevalent in the region, but now, its quality and maintenance for wildlife depends upon management. These workshops were designed to help natural resource professionals communicate effectively with various public audiences, landowners, decision makers and the media about the benefits of wildlife habitat management, especially managing for young forest habitat.

Workshops: Strategies for Effectively Communicating about the Management of Young Forests Workshops

4-Hour workshop held at the New England/NY Society of American Foresters Conference, February 1, 2013, Saratoga Springs, NY (40 participants, natural resource professionals, private and public lands foresters and educators)

4-Hour workshop held at the Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Conference, April 9, 2013, Saratoga Springs, NY (50 participants, agency biologists and other wildlife professionals)

Publications: Oehler, J., Gifford, N., Fergus, C., Edwards, T.,

Racey, M. and S. Allred. 2013. Talking About Young Forests: A Communication Handbook. Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. 40pp.

Oehler, J., Gifford, N., Fergus, C., Edwards, T.,

Racey, M. and S. Allred. 2013. The Young Forest Project: Growing Wildlife Habitat Together. Northeast Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

Website: www.YoungForests.org

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Teaching Activities Bruce Lauber continued to teach Natural Resource Planning and Management (NTRES 3300), a core 3-credit course in the Department of Natural Resources curriculum required of all Natural Resource Majors. The course focuses on the principles of planning as applied to natural resource issues. The 48 students enrolled in the course in 2013 worked together in case study groups throughout the semester to develop management plans for current controversial natural resource issues. Each student played the role of a stakeholder involved in an issue, researched the interests of the stakeholder, and advocated that those interests be reflected in the final plan developed. HDRU Director and Associate Professor Richard Stedman taught Society and Natural Resources (NTRES 2201) an undergraduate survey course intended to expose students to the scope of social science theories and methods used to understand the human/social underpinnings of environmental issues. This course enrolls around 200 students and is the introductory social science course for the new Environmental Science and Sustainability major. Richard Stedman also taught Human Dimensions of Coupled Social Ecological Systems (NTRES 4320) in the Spring, a senior seminar/’capstone’ course intended to ask upper level students to apply social science concepts and methods to the analysis of case studies that demonstrate crucial feedback loops between environmental change and social-economic change. This class enrolls about 20 students (a mix of seniors and graduate students) per semester. Richard Stedman co-taught (with Keith Tidball) a PhD seminar course in May 2013 at Stockholm University on Sense of Place and Positive Resource Dependence. The course enrolled 16 PhD students

from around the world, working with the Stockholm Resilience Centre. HDRU Associate Professor Shorna Allred taught NTRES 6000 (20 students), Introduction to Graduate Study in Natural Resources, in 2013. This class is designed to prepare incoming students for their graduate program in the Field of Natural Resources and to gain the appropriate skills needed to meet the challenges and evolving needs of professionals charged with understanding, researching, and managing sustainable natural and human systems. The course includes discussions of the role of science in conservation, with a particular focus on how scientists pursue career paths toward effective participation in this realm. Discussions focus on the practices of scientists and institutions that provide a framework for scientific endeavors. Shorna Allred also taught a class titled “Global Citizenship and Sustainability: Social Dimensions of Water Resources Management in Thailand” in 2013 (9 students). The class focuses on community resilience to flooding. The course objective is to help undergraduate and graduate students learn about global environmental problems in a local context from a combination of classroom instruction, cultural learning experiences, and completion of an action research project in Thailand with community partners. HDRU Co-Director Daniel Decker and Research Associate William Siemer delivered two lectures to students of NTRES 428/628 (Principles and Practices of Applied Wildlife Science, Paul Curtis Instructor) on February 5 and 7, 2013. These invited lectures introduce students to the concept and practice of integrating human dimensions into wildlife management.

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Summary of Consultations, Honors, Awards, and other Scholarly Activities

HDRU faculty and staff are active in a wide variety of professional and leadership activities. Examples of activities for 2013 are summarized below.

Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future

(ACSF) HDRU Associate Director Barbara Knuth serves on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Cornell Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, and is a Faculty Fellow. Richard Stedman, Dan Decker, and Shorna Allred are also ACSF Faculty Fellows.

Awards

Dan Decker won the 2013 Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Outstanding Service to the Community Award. HDRU graduate student Nirav Patel was nominated and selected to be the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Core Biology Program (BIOG 1440) for 2012-13. The award values the important contribution made towards the core biology instructional program and recognizes the distinguished performance in this vital role. Nirav has served as a visiting lecturer for introductory biology courses and served as an instructor for the introductory biology cluster-writing program. He has also worked as a teaching fellow at the Center for Teaching Excellence for new graduate students, a position that involved instruction in methods of teaching, development of course materials, and evaluation of new graduate instructors. HDRU PhD Candidate and Research Assistant Ingrid Biedron won an Honorable Mention Stephen Weithman Award for the Best Student Paper using Economic and/or Social Science Data and Analyses. The award was presented to Ingrid at the American Fisheries Society Meeting in Little Rock, AR in September, 2013. HDRU graduate student Darrick Evensen received the James Slevin Assignment Sequence Prize and the Gertrude Spencer Portfolio Award, both from Cornell's Knight Writing Institute. The awards were

for excellence in designing student assignments and in student mentoring. HDRU graduate student Darrick Evensen won the Harold Saperstein Sermon Contest for his interpretation of Jewish scriptures and rabbinic texts as applied to the issue of shale gas development via hydraulic fracturing. HDRU PhD Candidate Darragh Hare was awarded the 2013-14 Bluestone Fellowship by the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. This fellowship will support his research on ethical and governance implications of natural resource ownership. The National Woodland Owners Association (NWOA), in cooperation with the National Association of University Forest Resources Programs (NAUFRP), presented Cornell's Forest Connect program with the annual Family Forests Education Award at the 2013 Society of American Foresters (SAF) national convention in Charleston, South Carolina on October 23rd, 2014. See photo below.

Top row (from left): Peter Smallidge, Gary Goff, and

Diana Bryant. Bottom row (from left): Kristi Sullivan and Shorna Allred. Photo by Melanie Moss

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Communications Consultant HDRU PhD Candidate Ashley Dayer served as a strategic communications consultant to the Intermountain West Joint Venture (www.iwjv.org), Appalachian Mountain Joint Venture (www.amjv.org), Sea Duck Joint Venture (http://www.seaduckjv.org/), Prairie Potholes Joint Venture (www.ppjv.org) Migratory Bird Joint Ventures, and the USFWS Region 5 Division of Migratory Birds. These are public-private partnerships focused on bird and habitat conservation throughout North America.

Conference Moderator

Dan Decker served as a moderator for the Plenary session at the Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference in Saratoga, NY on April 8, 2013.

Consulting

HDRU Associate Director Barbara Knuth is a consultant to Westat and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for the project on revising the USEPA guidance document on conducting fish consumption surveys, including expanding the guidance to include assessing effectiveness of fish consumption advisories.

Fellowships HDRU graduate students Christine Moskell and Darrick Evensen were the only students from Cornell to be recognized as EPA STAR Fellows. They received funding in the social science category for 2012-2015. Approximately 1,500 graduate students applied to this competitive fellowship and only 87 received it.

Institutional Leadership Barbara Knuth is the Vice Provost and Dean of the Cornell University Graduate School. Dan Decker currently serves as the Chair of the Natural Resources Department. Richard Stedman is the Director of the Human Dimensions Research Unit. Shorna Allred is serving as the Department of Natural Resources Director of Graduate Studies.

Leadership in Professional Societies Shorna Allred serves as the Chair of the New York Society of American Foresters Policy Committee, and is Vice-Chair of the Society of American Foresters Private Forestry Working Group.

Leadership Roles HDRU Postdoctoral Research Associate Ashley Dayer continued to serve in regional, national and international bird conservation leadership roles, including Chair of the Bird Education Alliance for Conservation (www.birdedalliance.org); Chair of the Education and Communications Working Group and member of the Council of Partners in Flight (www.partnersinflight.org); Steering Committee member for Partners in Flight; Science and Communications Teams member for the U.S. State of the Birds (www.stateofthebirds.org); and Private Lands and Communications Committees member for the North American Bird Conservation Initiative (www.nabci-us.org). She was additionally selected to serve on the North American Waterfowl Management Plan's new Public Engagement Team.

Service on Boards

HDRU Associate Director Barbara Knuth served on the Ocean Studies Board (OSB) of the National Academies. In that capacity, she contributed a social science perspective to the deliberations of that body. She also served on the National Research Council Committee on the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon-252 Oil Spill on Ecosystem Services in the Gulf of Mexico. Shorna Allred serves on the American Forest Foundation’s Board of Trustees and is the Secretary of the Board. Dan Decker continued service on the Board of Governors for the New York Sea Grant Institute (currently the Executive Committee and Vice Chair 2012-2014). Dan Decker serves as the college-designated faculty advisor for the NY State Fish and Wildlife Management Board. Shorna Allred was re-appointed to the American Forest Foundation’s Board of Trustees for another 3-year term beginning in 2012 and currently serves as Secretary of the Board.

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Service on Committees

HDRU Associate Director Barbara Knuth serves as the American Fisheries Society (AFS) liaison to the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science. See photo below.

HDRU PhD Candidate and Research Assistant Ingrid Biedron continued a fourth year of service as a committee member of the American Fisheries Society Resource Policy Committee. Shorna Allred serves on the “Young Forest Management Communications Strategy for the Northeast” Subcommittee of the Northeast Habitat Technical Committee. This subcommittee is developing a communications strategy for encouraging behavior change with key stakeholders regarding early successional habitat conservation.

Service to Scientific and Professional Societies

HDRU Associate Director Barbara Knuth is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Council of Graduate Schools and was elected to serve as Chair-elect in 2014.