Client Comments

Our biologists and natural resource managers spend their professional lives implementing management programs designed to effect change. We regard natural change as normal. However, as professional natural resource managers, we do not as easily accept or embrace changes in our operating environment.

Responsive Management has been a catalyst to help recognize and adapt to change, for the Department. Responsive Management has resulted in meaningful strategic direction and a renewed commitment to our employees and customers.

I want to personally thank you for the substantial contribution to our successful staff conference in Corpus Christi. Your talk on Responsive Management: Integrating the Public into the Resource Management Equation was very timely and well received… The staff really got a lot out of your presentation and the session.

My compliments on a great presentation at the Watchable Wildlife Conference. Your ties to history and changes in technology were great in getting one to think of new ways to view this great challenge. Coming from one with a wildlife background, your comments were very credible and moved everyone to begin thinking of the human side of the coin.

Responsive Management has been helpful in getting our telephone surveys started after we attended their well-presented training session. We have called upon them for technical advice many times… When I call the RM office, I feel like I am talking to friends, yet they are well organized and professional. I am very pleased with the sponsorship arrangement.

In surveying the Kansas public’s attitudes about endangered species, we were dealing with a volatile issue. It is also one of the most important issues for wildlife management in Kansas. The review by RM of our survey instrument and subsequent endorsement provided a degree of credibility needed for this publicly sensitive project. In fact, the results, which demonstrated overwhelming support for our endangered species protection efforts, have yet to be met with any serious challenges. I’d give major credit to the helpful and critical review we received from Responsive Management. Thanks!

Congratulations! You folks did a great job on your new publication designed to inform Congress on the needs of a nationwide nongame program.

Attached is a report entitled Americans and Wildlife Diversity that was produced for the Association’s Fish and Wildlife Diversity Initiative. It is an excellent summary of the information available on public opinion, attitudes, interest and participation in, and funding for, wildlife viewing and wildlife diversity programs…

Mark Damian Duda and Kira Young with Responsive Management did an outstanding job pulling this information together. I believe it will greatly assist both the Association and its Fish and Wildlife Diversity Funding Initiative and your own agency as it works toward building support for stronger wildlife diversity and watchable wildlife programs.