Information, Education & Outreach Strategic Plan
In late 2011, the IGBC asked the Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) to review information, education and outreach (IE&O) efforts of the IGBC member agencies and their non-government organization (NGO) partners and develop recommendations to make future IE&O more strategic with respect to recovery, delisting and ongoing conservation of grizzly bears. WMI used online surveys, workshops in 4 of the 5 recovery ecosystems, reviews of planning documents and funding requests to compile information on the nature, strengths and weaknesses of current IE&O efforts; assess the importance of barriers to recovery and delisting that are a function of human attitudes, beliefs and behaviors; assess the effectiveness of current IE&O in addressing those barriers; and identify ways to make future IE&O most effective.