Survey of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Employees Regarding Constraints to Connecting Children with Nature-Summary Report to Respondents

摘要

This report provides a summary of responses to the questions included ona survey of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) employees regarding constraints to connecting children with nature. The survey was sponsoredby the Division of Education Outreach (DEO) at the National ConservationTraining Center (NCTC) and conducted by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) personnel in the Policy Analysis and Science Assistance (PASA) branch. The data collection process started on February 25, 2010 and ended on March 9, 2010. The dataset includes the responses from 320 individuals. The adjusted response rate for the survey was 55 percent. In this report, we provide the summary results for the survey questions in the order in which the questions were asked. The text of comments provided by respondents to open-ended questions is provided. Our preliminary conclusions are based only on frequencies and averages of responses to the survey questions. In-depth analyses will be reported in the completion report for this project. We asked respondents to rate nine statements on the basis of their relevance to the component of the FWS mission that addresses connecting people with nature. The statements described diverse possible outcomes of connecting people with nature. The pattern of responses indicated that all the statements were viewed as relevant. We asked about the more general issue of connecting people with nature when asking about the mission of the FWS because that is consistent with the language used by the FWS. The remainder of the questions on the survey focused on connecting a specific-subpopulation- children-with nature.