Research Team
America’s Wildlife Values is a collaborative project supported by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Multistate Conservation Grant Program. The research team led by Colorado State University includes partners representing top academic/research institutions, regional fish and wildlife management associations, and state fish and wildlife agency personnel.
What are Wildlife Values?
Wildlife value orientations are an expression of fundamental values revealed through a pattern of basic beliefs. From two predominant orientations four typologies of wildlife values are classified. People are classified by scoring responses to survey item scales representing utilitarian and mutualist wildlife value orientations.
Results
The national and state level reports are now publicly available.
WHY IS THIS PROJECT UNIQUE?
AMERICA’S WILDLIFE VALUES
is one of the largest research efforts ever undertaken to understand the ‘Human Dimensions’ of wildlife management in the United States. The project is designed to enhance the utility of human dimensions information for state fish and wildlife agencies.
WHY STUDY WILDLIFE VALUES?
AMERICA’S WILDLIFE VALUES
is a collaborative project aimed at enhancing our understanding of the complex social factors which will characterize the future of wildlife management in North America.