AU Survey on CWD

Hey everybody. I hope everyone is doing well.

I am working with some scientists here at Auburn who have been examining issues surrounding Chronic Wasting Disease, and with the recent discovery of CWD in Alabama, we were hoping to develop a better understanding of Alabama deer hunters’ concerns, desires, and attitudes. Understanding what YOU as a hunter in Alabama want in regards to CWD will help ultimately improve the ability of agencies and managers to meet the needs of both hunters and wildlife. We have developed a survey for deer hunters to help us collect this information, and we are hoping that you will take some time to fill it out (and maybe even pass it to some other fellow hunters to help us increase our sample size). If you would like to fill out this survey, click HERE.

All information in this survey will be anonymous, and will not be shared with any other group. However, summaries of the data generated will be made public in report form. This project is being conducted solely by personnel in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences at Auburn, and is being financially supported solely by Auburn as well. No outside organizations are involved in the funding, development, or implementation of this survey.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to reach out and I will be happy to address them. Or, you can email Catherine Cummings, the PhD student who is leading the survey effort, at cac0235@auburn.edu. We really appreciate your time, respect your point of view, and want to understand it.

Thank you.

Steve

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Thank you for getting this survey out.

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The question referencing purchasing a license next season should, in my opinion, be rephrased. I have a lifetime license so I will not be purchasing licenses next year but if I am answering NO then I am biasing that sample when I will be hunting in AL.


Thank you for what you all do for our natural resources.

Some interesting questions. Be curious to what they find and what will be done with the information

I am in same boat as Razor. I have a lifetime license too so I just marked yes

Thanks for catching that...we missed it. The survey should be corrected now so that if you have a lifetime license, that is an option.

Thanks for dropping in, Steve, and good luck with the survey.

Thanks Clem. Hopefully we can get quite a few people to fill out the survey and help Catherine with her study.

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I did it hopefully this crowd will hold some weight but I ain't holding my breath

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The survey that I just took was not updated with lifetime license option

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Good to see you post again Steve. Just finished your survey.

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Thank you to everyone who has taken the survey. I can't express how appreciate I am for your participation. As of a few minutes ago, I was told that approximately 230 individuals had filled out the survey. That is an incredible response...thank you again.

If you haven't filled out the survey, we sure hope you will consider participating. Also, we would really appreciate it if you could pass it along to friends, family, etc., to help increase response rate. These data are going to be very valuable to Catherine as part of her study, and will hopefully improve our understanding of the hunting public and their knowledge about wildlife diseases.

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Would you post the results of the survey when y'all get done here

Survey is complete. And there are only two genders, not a “other”.

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Thank you again to everyone. We will definitely make the resulting report available to everyone on here. But, more than likely it will be at least several months. I apologize that it will take so long.

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If this survey is still open and available to be completed, y'all fill it out to help the doc and his student if you haven't already. Send the link to your deer hunting friends, too.

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Hey everyone. Thank you again for your support.

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