WSPC04788

• File Number: 7630.650
• Description: Wild and Scenic - Yampa River
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/1/3000
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Materials Employed for the Social Conflict Analysis of the Yampa and Green Wild and Scenic Rivers Planning Area
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Irwtructiona to PHnel Hc:nber

INmODUCTJ.OH

We would like to welcome you to this exercise. Our
efforts arc directed at determining social conflict
patterns associated with implementation of management
alternatives in the planning area. We appreciate your
assistance.

Our problem today concerns the conflict operating at the
present time within the planning area, and the conflict
which will result from the decision of the Forest Service
in managing land within or proximate to the planning
area. There will ahlays be conflict in an area, and
there will always be conflict generated by management
decisions. Our concern is not with elimination of
conflict, but with estimating the impact of different
management alternatives on the conflict between groups
that are already at odds with each other.

To accomplish our objectives, we need your help to esti-
mate; 1) where key social groups stand on existing
issues, 2) the positions you think the social groups
will take with regard to particular management alterna-
tives, and 3) the degree of importance associated.

The Approach

You will be asked to make a series of estimations, along
with other members of your panel, in an effort to determine
what the consequences for social conflict will be if the
study team were to adopt different managemen~ alternatives in
the Yampa and Green Wild and Scenic Rivers Planning Area.

This approach is cumulative. The first round of your
responses will reveal a "first cut" at the positions and
issues. Think of the first round as exploratory. By the
completion of the second or third rounds, we expect
that you will probably see a convergence of group views
on the issues. At the conclusion of each round, the
reasoning of each participant is fed back to all partici-
pants for their consideration. By no later than the
third or fourth round, there will probably be clearly
defined patterns of judgment in the panel. At this point
some group discussion may be carried out based upon the
panel's consensus or polarization. We expect to do what
we can to preserve the anonymity of the respondents.

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We
want you
to help us
estimate
the
impact
on
conflicts
amoung
groups.

position
and
importance

series
of
rounds
or
approximations

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