Rural Adult Education: Recommendations for Priority Watershed Projects
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1987-05Author
Shaver, Dale Robert
Publisher
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, College of Natural Resources
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The study, undertaken to develop recommendations to
effectively educate rural landowners on water quality matters,
examined characteristics of the rural social and cultural
environment, the rural adult learner, and inventoried existing
information and education materials on priority watershed
projects. During March to June of 1986, 439 rural landowner
surveys were mailed out in the Milwaukee River basin to examine
landowners' perceptions of water quality problems, responses to
various water quality improvement programs, local land and farm
characteristics, and landowners' socio-economic characteristics.
The dependent variable was the landowners' willingness to
participate in water quality programs. The independent variables
of landowner age, income, education, influence of family, self
perception, perception of water quality problems, influence of
friends and community, size and type of farming operation, and
land tenure status were compared to participation in water
quality programs. Statistical analysis using the chi-square
test indicated that awareness of water quality problems,
landowner age, and education were significantly related to the
dependent variable.