Table 3 Responses from natural resource professionals in the Southeaster Coastal Plain of the United States (2015 to 2016) when asked, “how have RCW management practices change throughout your career?” (Additional file 1: question 18). Some interviewees gave more than one response
Experience working with red-cockaded woodpeckers | |||||||
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Response | 0-5 yr | 6-10 yr | 11-15 yr | 16-20 yr | 21-25 yr | >26 yr | Total (n) |
1. Managing whole ecosystems rather than individual components | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | |
2. Innovations in technology (e.g., peeper cameras, development of artificial cavities) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
3. Agency attitude towards RCW management now more positive | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |||
4. No change during their career | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||||
5. More prescribed fire | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | ||
6. Translocation program has grown or improved | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
7. Greater knowledge of habitat needs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
8. Increase in wildland-urban interface concerns | 1 | 1 | |||||
9. More inter-agency collaboration | 1 | 1 | |||||
10. Less demand for translocated birds | 1 | 1 | |||||
11. More staff resources devoted to RCW management activities | 1 | 1 | |||||
Total participants by experience | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 32 |