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Impact Report
| For plan | Environmentally sustainable management of aquatic resources and watersheds. |
| Date | January 13, 2011, 8:02 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Surveys conducted before and after Watershed stewardship presentation demonstrated that attendees learned new concepts and were more knowledgeable about the importance of watershed stewardship and the role of humans and land use practices on non-point source pollutions Prior to hearing Watershed Stewardship Talk only 60 percent of attendees surveyed thought learning about watershed management was important, compared to 100 percent after the talk. When surveyed, 100 percent of attendees knew that most pollutants entering our waters came from Non-point source pollution after the talk, compared to 10 percent before that talk. Comments given anonymously by surveyed participants in the 2010 Watershed Stewardship Talk included “great presentation”, “very insightful”, “got a broad understanding on how small things you do can alter the life of a stream and/or river”, “awesome”, “cool:, “awesome class”, “very interesting”, “very informative and useful”, “I very much enjoyed the pictures, showed watersheds that were close to my community”. When surveyed, 95 percent of attendees rated the class as providing worthwhile to very worthwhile information. Received very positive feedback from several attendees who listened to talk entitled: “Understanding the environmental impact of pesticides commonly used in urban landscapes" given at Pesticide Workshop. Talk was described by one attendee as “the best talk today by far. I actually listened and learned stuff”. One attendee stated that up until the talk he had never learned about potential runoff, leaching or contamination of waters by pesticides. The Southwest Turfgrass Conference was attended by over 150 people, and presentation on “Water quality issues in ponds” received an average rating of 1.3 (from 1=best to 4=poor) for presentation style and 1.4 (1= very relevant to 4=no relevance) for topic relevance. 100% of the participants that returned the survey listed speaker of “Water quality issues in ponds” as one who should be invited again. In addition, this topic was listed by participants as one in which their knowledge of the subject was most improved after the presentation. Conference attendees rated their knowledge on water quality issues in ponds with an average of 1.7 before and 3.0 after the presentation (1 = poor to 4 = excellent). Extension circular on Golden Algae was very well received at both the state and national level. In addition to being posted on the NMSU CES website, the article has also been posted on the New Mexico Department of Environment website, copies were requested by the New Mexico Game and Fish, and the article was requested and has been sent out to a national distribution list of over 250 HAB (hazardous algae blooms) scientists throughout the country. |