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Dear [RECIPIENT NAME],
We are contacting you a final time about the USDA/APHIS/Wildlife Services predator damage management study because
your input is vitally important to making representative, sound decisions. Whether or not Wildlife Services or predator damage
management is of interest to you, your perspectives are crucial to improving livestock protection practices.
Please consider replying to this email with your responses to the following 2 questions.
1. Before Wildlife Services provided you with nonlethal predator damage management assistance, how interested were
you in using nonlethal predator damage management methods on your livestock operation?
On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 = “Not at all interested before” and 5 = “Extremely interested before,” please reply to this email with
the number that corresponds to your answer.
Not at all
interested
before

Slightly interested
before

Moderately
interested
before

Very interested
before

Extremely
interested
before

1

2

3

4

5

2. After receiving nonlethal predator damage management assistance from Wildlife Services, how interested were you
in continuing to use nonlethal predator damage management methods on your livestock operation?
On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 = “Not at all interested after” and 5 = “Extremely interested after,” please reply to this email with the
number that corresponds to your answer.
Not at all
interested after

Slightly interested
after

Moderately
interested after

Very interested
after

Extremely
interested
after

1

2

3

4

5

Thank you for time and consideration! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the project coordinator,
Hailey Ellis via email at hailey.e.ellis@usda.gov or by phone at (970) 266-6148.
Sincerely,

Hailey Ellis
Social Scientist
Human Dimensions Unit
USDA/Wildlife Services/National Wildlife Research Center