Cognitive and behavioral coping in response to wildlife disease: The case of hunters and chronic wasting disease

Schroeder, Susan A.; Landon, Adam C.; Cornicelli, Louis; Fulton, David C.; McInenly, Leslie E.

doi:10.1080/10871209.2021.1919340

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“…There is limited research against which to compare this finding. However, Schroeder et al (2019) document similar support among deer hunters in the same geography. In states where supplemental feeding and baiting is a part of deer hunting culture, landowners and hunters may express very different preferences regarding prohibition of the practice.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…These results suggest that paying hunters to kill CWD‐positive deer is not a socially viable mechanism for management among southeast Minnesota landowners, and there is not a minority segment in support of such a strategy. Schroeder et al (2019) found a similar result among hunters in the region further demonstrating the limited utility of such an instrument. Critically, this pattern did not hold for all instruments, and some landowners expressed preference for a program that would pay them for a CWD‐positive deer killed on their property or if the landowner provided for public hunting access.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Risk items were measured on a 7 point unipolar scale where 1 = not at all concerned, and 7= extremely concerned. We derived a priori dimensions from past work (Schroeder et al 2019). We operationalized trust along 4 dimensions measuring trust in outcomes, process, and technical competence, following Schroeder et al (2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…We derived a priori dimensions from past work (Schroeder et al 2019). We operationalized trust along 4 dimensions measuring trust in outcomes, process, and technical competence, following Schroeder et al (2019). We also assessed landowners' perceived value similarity with the MNDNR.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Examining landowners' preferences for a chronic wasting disease management program

Landon

Smith

Cornicelli

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Wildlife Society Bulletin

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Private landowners are key partners in chronic wasting disease (CWD) management, especially in landscapes where there is limited public ownership. In this study, we evaluated landowners' preferences for alternative hypothetical CWD management programs using a stated choice experiment. We were particularly interested in understanding preferences for the use of financial incentives to motivate white‐tailed deer harvest and facilitate hunter access to private lands as potential CWD management tools. We used latent class analysis to characterize preference heterogeneity among landowners stemming from patterns of choice. We compared means and distributions of auxiliary variables related to landowners' perceived risks, trust, attitudes toward management, and sociodemographics across latent classes stemming from choice model results. The pooled model demonstrated that reducing deer population density, providing payments to landowners for CWD‐positive deer taken from their property, the form of incentives for public access, and banning recreational deer feeding had a small positive effect on respondents' choice of CWD management program. However, providing financial payments to hunters for harvesting CWD‐positive deer and the use of targeted culling had the opposite effect on choice. Latent class models revealed that a majority of respondents exhibited a pattern of preference where all forms of incentives exerted a negative effect on choice, but smaller subsets of landowners positively evaluate the use of some incentives. Post‐hoc contrasts revealed relationships between patterns of preferences and trust, risk, and attitudes toward CWD management with small to medium effects. Results demonstrated limited support for the use of financial incentives as a tool to manage access and harvest in the southeast Minnesota CWD management zone.

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confidence: 93%

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confidence: 96%

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Examining landowners' preferences for a chronic wasting disease management program

Landon

Smith

Cornicelli

et al. 2022

Wildlife Society Bulletin

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“…Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurological disease affecting cervid species (e.g., deer, elk, and moose species) across the United States, Canada, Finland, Norway, South Korea, and Sweden (Schroeder et al, 2022). Although the disease has not yet been known to pose a risk to human health, transmission to humans cannot be entirely discounted as the disease has been experimentally transmitted to various species, including nonhuman primates (Haley & Hoover, 2015).…”

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A Family Systems Theory Approach to Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease-Related Perceptions and Behaviors

Rubino

Serenari

2023

Hum Ecol

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altering their behaviors, including deserting hunting (thus decreasing license sales), reducing the time they spend hunting, or changing their primary hunting location to avoid CWD-infected cervid populations (Holland et al., 2020). As such, researchers have documented hunters' perceptions of CWD-related risk and how these perceptions influence hunting behaviors. These studies have indicated that hunters often feel concerned about the linkages between CWD and human health and may believe that they can potentially contract CWD from consuming infected meat (Cooney &

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Changes in Illinois hunters' beliefs about chronic wasting disease management between 2012 and 2022

Vaske

Miller

2023

Wildlife Society Bulletin

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Previous human dimensions articles related to changes in perceptions about chronic wasting disease (CWD) have focused on psychological variables (e.g., risk, trust). We expanded the scope of comparison and included 27 CWD management-action variables. We obtained data from 2 mail surveys of resident deer hunters randomly sampled from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources' (IDNR) permit holders, administered first in 2012 (n = 5,663, response rate = 55%) and again in 2022 (n = 1,237, response rate = 43%). Hunters in 2022 were less aware of IDNR's management actions (e.g., increase the number of deer permits) than the 2012 hunters. Alternatively, the 2022 hunters were more supportive of actions the IDNR should pursue (e.g., use deer sharpshooting) than the 2012 hunters. Hunters in 2012 were more supportive of testing for CWD than the 2022 sample, although the differences were small. Conversely, the 2022 hunters were always more likely to believe that each IDNR action (e.g., use deer sharpshooting) was more effective than those during 2012. Statistical differences can be partially attributed to the large sample size as the average Cohen's d across all 27 items was only 0.159 (i.e., small). Overall, findings demonstrate the importance of tracking changes in beliefs over

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Cognitive and behavioral coping in response to wildlife disease: The case of hunters and chronic wasting disease

Cited by 10 publications

References 35 publications

Examining landowners' preferences for a chronic wasting disease management program

Examining landowners' preferences for a chronic wasting disease management program

A Family Systems Theory Approach to Hunters’ Chronic Wasting Disease-Related Perceptions and Behaviors

Changes in Illinois hunters' beliefs about chronic wasting disease management between 2012 and 2022

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