Chapter IV - Block Management Effectiveness 



► 



Landowners who want to enroll in the program (140 surveys 

 sent, 50 returned) 



l sl - Manage hunter activities (12). 

 2 nd - Monetary incentives (11). 

 3 rd - Manage hunter numbers (6). 



► Landowners enrolled in the program during the 1998 hunting 

 season (307 surveys sent, 175 returned) 



1 st - Manage hunter activities (32). 

 2 nd - Monetary incentives (30). 

 3 rd - Manage hunter numbers (22). 



► Landowners no longer enrolled in the program (121 surveys 

 sent, 61 returned) 



1 st - Monetary incentives (16). 

 2 nd - Manage hunter activities (8). 

 3 rd - Manage hunter numbers(6). 



Why No Longer Enrolled We also asked the 121 landowners no longer enrolled in the program 



why they did not re-enroll to determine if the reasons for enrolling 

 were not met. The following shows the top four reasons the 6 1 

 responding landowners did not re-enroll in the program: 



27 Monetary incentives were not enough to compensate for 



hunter impacts. 

 23 Too many disruptions by hunters. 

 20 Too many hunters. 



20. Block Management Program was not what I expected. 

 Reasons included: 



5 - Compensation differed from contract or went down. 

 3 - Hunters expected to be able to hunt - they thought 



they owned the land. 

 2 - Not enough/wrong sex deer taken. 



1 - Signing up hunters too disruptive to overall farm 



operations. 

 1 - More hunters were calling than anticipated. 



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