John Kelly Roberts Creek Aug 18, 2006 3:19 am

Hi there,

I am interested in designing a study to assess the perceptions held by residents of a particular community towards black bears. So far my thoughts are to design a series of questions and conduct interviews of residents. There seems to be an ever increasing need for work that attempts to ameliorate the existing and potential human-wildlife conflict. In the community where I am, black bears are part of the community and all attempts are made to be proactive in the approach. Any insight anyone may have about how to design and conduct interviews for such a study would be very helpful, as well as steering towards the appropriate ways to conduct qualitative research, interesting papers, etc.,

thanks in advance,
enjoy your day

jvk