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  • Invasive Plants
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  • Pet Waste
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 2 Comments

• Re: Stand Against Corona Pledge and Study Results on Prosocial Messaging to Motivate Collective Action

  2020-06-01 23:31:53 UTC

  I haven't seen any studies, but this reflects what I saw as a social media manager for our county during the 8 weeks I was working on COVID messaging. All I have is impressions from my experience, but I think they're right that people were likely self-selecting. 

• Re: Dog Poop Citizen Science Examples?

  2020-05-26 13:30:54 UTC

  I don't have any citizen science examples for you, but this is a great start! If you have a GIS Department, or if you can set up a Survey 123 app yourself, you could take the data collection online. Our neighboring county needed the ability to track where wildlife is in order to find wildlife poop to sample for a DNA project, and they made a map that could allow members of the public and staff to submit where they saw different wildlife. You could easily do this with piles of dog poop to see if you can track hotspots. And then you'd have maps that may look scandalous enough to show the public to cause some level of outrage. Make sure the media gets a copy of the map, and be ready for an interview!

  Do you have any volunteer groups that would be willing to take poo-tracking on for a weekend? Student groups would totally work too. Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts. I'm thinking a short, intensive survey would be handy. That way, you'd know you weren't double-counting piles. You could even combine it with flagging each pile for a week or two like Springfield, MO did. https://fox4kc.com/news/is-this-your-turd-springfields-cleanup-flags-dog-poop/ I've really, REALLY wanted to imitate this program in some of our more popular areas with a scout troop, just haven't had the time. And I suspect our problem has a lot more to do with lazy yard pickup rather than walks. 

  Anyway, I hope that helps! Good luck!

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