US Forest Service -- Taylor Wilderness Field Station Research Agenda Survey
  
 
The US Forest Service has recently implemented a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for management, collaboration, & partnership for wilderness research between the University of Idaho, Taylor Wilderness Field Station, and the Forests administering the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness .
 
 On 23 September 2009 Forest Service managers from the RNR Wilderness will be meeting in McCall with researchers from two Idaho universities and from the Rocky Mountain Experiment Station and the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute to discuss the opportunities presented with this MOU. 

Please take just a few minutes to send us your thoughts about what kind of research is appropriate and how research should occur in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.		         
   
 Managers 1.

 

 

 

What are the major kinds of management issues or problems that you will be facing over the next decade? 
   

2.

 

What kind of information could scientists conducting research in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness provide that would help you address the management issues you will be facing over the next decade? 
  
 

  3.

What do you perceive to be the potential barriers to working with researchers in the Frank Church  River of No Return Wilderness?
  

  Managers, please go to the questions below in blue:
 
Research Community

 

  
1.		  
What kind of research do you think should be given priority in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness?
   
   
  2. What do you perceive to be the potential barriers to working with the Forest Service to conduct research in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness?
    
  
  3. In the MOU the Univ. of Idaho has the responsibility for data management and making data accessible to scientists and managers. What types of data would you suggest or recommend for archival and access to the broader community (including managers).
 
Researchers, please answer the questions below, too.

Managers AND Researchers

  
4.		  
Are you planning on attending the meeting in McCall on 23 September 2009?     
  
  5. If YES, would you like to participate in a visit to the Taylor Wilderness Field Station on Thursday--Saturday?    YES           NO

     If you checked YES, please give us your name, email address and phone number so that we can follow up on arrangements.

     Name:       Email:      Phone: 

   
  6. Do you have any other questions or comments that you think the group should discuss in the McCall meeting?

 

  7. Please tell us your location and affiliation or position, just to help us plan for this meeting.

 

  8.

Your responses will be strictly confidential and the information you submit will be summarized and made available to everyone who participates in this survey.   If you would like to receive a copy of the results of this survey, please enter your email address below.

  Email Address:  
  

                                    

    Please click on the "Submit" button to send us your answers. Thank You!