Photo: Salt cedar & giant cane along the Rio Grande, Big Bend National Park. © 2017 Delena Norris-Tull
Interviews with County, State and Federal Agency Representatives on management of invasive plants in the Western USA
Interviews and commentary by Dr. Delena Norris-Tull, Professor Emerita of Science Education, University of Montana Western. Several interviews by Becky McMillen, Insight Creative Independent Productions, and Beth Bennett, sociology graduate student.
Over the course of several years, I have transcribed many interviews, some that I conducted, and some conducted by Becky McMillen, designed to develop a picture of the history, and the current status, of the management of invasive plants in the Western USA.
The links below provide the transcripts from each interview. With the interviews I conducted myself, I have been continuously amazed at the willingness of so many people to allow me to interview them. They have been very forthcoming in their responses to my questions and have filled in many gaps in the story of the effectiveness of management of invasive plants.
There are many more interviews I hope to conduct over time. This aspect of the project has been both the most time consuming and the most rewarding. Many of these individuals have decades of experience in the field of noxious weed management. Their experiences and insights add much to the total picture of the realities of the challenges involved in such a massive endeavor.
These interviews provide windows into the on-the-ground efforts that are taking place across the West. The State and Federal laws and policies only tell us what the State and Federal Agencies hoped to accomplish. They do not tell us to what extent those policies and plans have been carried out. It is only through talking to the many individuals responsible for carrying out those policies that we discover the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and failures of these efforts.
Within this website, refer to the section, Policy versus Practice, for an analysis of some of the reasons that policies do not get carried out as intended. These interviews provide insights into this conundrum very poignantly.
In addition to the interviews, I wrote several Road Logs, documenting vegetation along roadways during several trips between Montana and Texas.
Links to the Interviews:
Interviews with County, State and Federal Agency Representatives on management of invasive plants in the Western USA
Interviews and commentary by Dr. Delena Norris-Tull, Professor Emerita of Science Education, University of Montana Western. Several interviews by Becky McMillen, Insight Creative Independent Productions, and Beth Bennett, sociology graduate student.
Over the course of several years, I have transcribed many interviews, some that I conducted, and some conducted by Becky McMillen, designed to develop a picture of the history, and the current status, of the management of invasive plants in the Western USA.
The links below provide the transcripts from each interview. With the interviews I conducted myself, I have been continuously amazed at the willingness of so many people to allow me to interview them. They have been very forthcoming in their responses to my questions and have filled in many gaps in the story of the effectiveness of management of invasive plants.
There are many more interviews I hope to conduct over time. This aspect of the project has been both the most time consuming and the most rewarding. Many of these individuals have decades of experience in the field of noxious weed management. Their experiences and insights add much to the total picture of the realities of the challenges involved in such a massive endeavor.
These interviews provide windows into the on-the-ground efforts that are taking place across the West. The State and Federal laws and policies only tell us what the State and Federal Agencies hoped to accomplish. They do not tell us to what extent those policies and plans have been carried out. It is only through talking to the many individuals responsible for carrying out those policies that we discover the pitfalls, challenges, successes, and failures of these efforts.
Within this website, refer to the section, Policy versus Practice, for an analysis of some of the reasons that policies do not get carried out as intended. These interviews provide insights into this conundrum very poignantly.
In addition to the interviews, I wrote several Road Logs, documenting vegetation along roadways during several trips between Montana and Texas.
Links to the Interviews: