Goshawk
Productivity StudyProject #2
Started: March 1, 2005
Goshawk
Productivity Study
Project #2
Started: March 1, 2005
Last Updated: Mar. 1, 2006 (Project Canceled)
Three separate requests to members, individually mailed information packets and phone calls to nearly 60% of the CHC members with a one year long campaign to collect nesting locations resulted in only 4 nesting locations being turned in to the study. Since this would not provide any significant data and since the membership by lack of response does not appear to support the basis of the project. After one last plea in the Jan-06 newsletter, no location additonal progress had been made so the decision to cancel the project was made.
Project Leader:
Project Synopsis: Project Status: Proposed Schedule:
Productivity studies will be conducted by the
membership starting with preliminary data collection and site identification in
the 2005 season. The identified locations will be consolidated and
scheduled for monitoring in 2006 to collect complete productivity information on
those locations as well as to attempt to consolidate data from other sources.
At the completion of the 2006 survey, and assessment will be made to determine
the feasibility of make this a 3 year study to collect data depending on the
success of the first year, cooperation of the membership and related
organizations, and the results of the study.
Surveys from the membership to establish a
preliminary count on the number of known locations as well as determine the
membership support were conducted in April. The results were tabulated and
discussed at the membership meeting prior to the Spring Banquet. The
results were very encouraging with over 83% of the membership in support of the
project, and with a significantly greater than expected number of potential
territories to survey. The board voted to proceed with he study and work
has begun on the logistics for the study.
The database has been created with the the requirements
of the DOW and the membership restrictions put in place. It has been
tested with location data to date, but not yet with productivity data.
A outline for the study report has been created which
included the collection guidelines and survey forms. The data collection
forms and instruction sheet have been edited and approved and are due for
sending out to a subset of the membership by the end of May. A couple
weeks later than expected, but since the process has taken a lot longer than
expected, we have already conceded that a complete data-set will not be feasible
this year, so data collection this year will consist of primarily location and
logistic information.
We hope to complete contacting the remainder of the
membership by the end of May. This should be relatively painless, and the
only reason for the remaining phone calls are to determine is data collection
packets will need to be sent out (if a member has potential territories that
they are willing to release information on).
June will see the assignment of various agencies to
volunteers to query about results of possible studies that might be combined.
We will also ask that they share that data with the DOW and potentially
consolidate data if available. If specifics are not available, then we
will use the results to compare ours with as a control group.
Data Collection Packets Mailed - May 22
Independent data collection for June through
July with final data collection being assembled in August.
Results from year one of the study we hope will available to the board by the
beginning of Sept for final review and to the general membership by the end of
Sept. (with a little luck in time for the Sept. newsletter)