Len M Hunt
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Len M Hunt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Len M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hunt |
| SIGNATURE | HUNT L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8588-636X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Actively encouraging online responses to a mixed-mode mail and web survey
Little effort has focused on encouraging less costly, online responses within mixed-mode surveys. From an Ontario angler survey, this gap is addressed by applying a nudge (i.e., mail push to web) or control (i.e., providing a print questionnaire and return envelope) for the final mail contact. The nudge increased the share of online responses from the final contact by over 40% while only slightly decreasing (1.3%) the response rate. The nudge mos…
Per trip changes to the economic value of Ontario, Canada anglers fishing the Laurentian Great Lakes under target species transitions
Changing fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes could substantially affect how anglers value fishing trips. Using responses from licensed Ontario, Canada anglers to potential fishing trip options, we estimated changes to per-trip values for transitioning from a walleye (Sander vitreus) to a bass (Micropterus spp.) fishery, and from a Chinook Salmon (Oncorynchus tshawytscha) to a lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) fishery. These walleye and…
Exploring Reasons for Varying Support for the Status Quo among Ontario’s Moose Hunters
Strong public support for the status quo often occurs when wildlife managers propose changes to regulations and policies. We illustrated that this support is highly variable for three contexts (vague, general, and specific) that involved potentially more restrictive regulations for hunting moose (Alces alces) in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Status quo support was highest (88%) when hunters were questioned with a vague context (i.e., do you suppo…
Dr. Wolfgang Haider (1953 – 2015)
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the unexpected passing of Dr. Wolfgang Haider, who died on August 24, 2015 at the age of 62 following a bicycle accident in Austria. He leaves behind his wi
Evaluating the Ability of Specialization Indicators to Explain Fishing Preferences
Understanding the predictive ability of recreation specialization to explain behavior is important for wildlife and fisheries management given the widespread use of specialization to capture diversity among outdoor recreationists. Using allocation of days among fishing opportunities in a discrete choice experiment, we studied the extent that specialization predicted preferences for attributes describing the opportunities. Latent class modeling re…
Estimating visitors’ travel mode choices along the Bear Lake Road in Rocky Mountain National Park
Hearing Voices from the Silent Majority
We used stated-preference choice models to examine Ontario anglers' preferred outcomes from fish stocking of Lake Huron and variations in these preferences between a random and a convenience sample. Anglers preferred outcomes that decreased risks of fish stock collapses and increased native prey fish species, average fish size, and species abundance especially for walleye (Sander vitreus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Anglers from a co…
Cyclone evacuation in Bangladesh
Based on two separate post-cyclone pilot surveys on evacuation behaviour during two category 4 tropical cyclones in Bangladesh—Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007—this study attempts to explain why the overwhelming majority of cyclone victims did not participate in evacuation initiatives, irrespective of significant changes in cyclone preparedness in Bangladesh following 1991. Although the two surveys were conducted in different time horizons—one abou…
Information Complexity as a Constraint to Public Involvement in Sustainable Forest Management
This study explores the importance of information complexity and how it constrains interactive public involvement in forest management planning in Ontario, Canada. Our data was collected using five approaches: (a) content analysis of independent forest audits from 57 public forest units; (b) content analysis of self evaluated reports of effectiveness by 35 of 40 forest stakeholder advisory committees; (c) face to face interviews with 15 current a…
Exploring the Acceptability of Spatial Simulation Models of Outdoor Recreation for Use by Participants in Public Participation Processes
The use of spatial simulation models in public participation processes through multiple facilitated group sessions is explored in northern Ontario, Canada. Participants evaluated the acceptability of an agent-based model of recreational fishing while working through hypothetical management scenarios. Four main concepts are linked to acceptability: credibility, comprehensiveness, comprehension, and utility. These concepts were generally consistent…
Managing Forest Road Access on Public Lands
Conflicts around the provision, maintenance, and removal of forest road access abound in resource management. These conflicts arise since road access benefits some people while negatively affecting others. Through qualitative interviews with key stakeholders from two northern Ontario, Canada, communities, we examined issues around road access. Conflict emerged as the core category from the interviews, with conflicts primarily arising between tour…
Examining State Dependence and Place Attachment Within a Recreational Fishing Site Choice Model
Many contexts including the fidelity that recreationists have for sites may affect the choices of recreational sites by individuals. This study expands the choice model research on state dependence by examining state dependence at site and larger spatial scales. Analyses of recreational fishing site choices by anglers from northern Ontario, Canada suggest that anglers exhibit state dependence at both the site and larger spatial scales. Attempts t…
Recreational Fishing Site Choice Models
This article reviews published research that has focused on the recreational fishing site choices made by anglers. A conceptual model for predicting fishing site choice is developed by synthesizing the findings from past studies that employed fishing site choice models. From these and other relevant studies, six general attributes (i.e., costs, fishing quality, environmental quality, facility development, encounters with other anglers, and regula…
Remote tourism and forest management
Spatial choice modelling
This paper is designed to review recent developments in choice modelling that offer promise for studying spatial choices. In particular, we focus on the ability of general choice models to account for a richer pattern of spatial substitution than afforded by early choice models. We argue that the generality offered by these choice models is sufficient to rethink the current view that spatial choice is a distinct field of inquiry. Our conclusion i…
Understanding the Fish Harvesting Decisions by Anglers
This paper examined whether angling catch behaviors, angler characteristics, and angler evaluations could explain the decisions by anglers to harvest caught fish. Particularly, we determined if the propensity of tourist anglers to harvest caught walleye ( Stizostedion vitreum ), northern pike ( Esox lucius ), and smallmouth bass ( Micropterus Dolomieui ) was related to variables that measured catch rates, angling effort, catch rates for substitut…
Post‐flood assessment of emergency evacuation policies in the Red River basin, Southern Manitoba
A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used as a part of a post‐flood survey among the residents of four small urban communities on the Red River ‐ Emerson, Morris, Ste. Agathe, and St. Adolphe ‐ to assess their preferences for emergency evacuation policies. The respondents were asked to choose repeatedly among three hypothetical evacuation policies described in terms of (a) the type of evacuation (mandatory, voluntary, no evacuation), (b) notifi…
Loss and Change
Evaluating the Ability of Specialization Indicators to Explain Fishing Preferences
Understanding the predictive ability of recreation specialization to explain behavior is important for wildlife and fisheries management given the widespread use of specialization to capture diversity among outdoor recreationists. Using allocation of days among fishing opportunities in a discrete choice experiment, we studied the extent that specialization predicted preferences for attributes describing the opportunities. Latent class modeling re…
Examining State Dependence and Place Attachment Within a Recreational Fishing Site Choice Model
Many contexts including the fidelity that recreationists have for sites may affect the choices of recreational sites by individuals. This study expands the choice model research on state dependence by examining state dependence at site and larger spatial scales. Analyses of recreational fishing site choices by anglers from northern Ontario, Canada suggest that anglers exhibit state dependence at both the site and larger spatial scales. Attempts t…
Spatial choice modelling
This paper is designed to review recent developments in choice modelling that offer promise for studying spatial choices. In particular, we focus on the ability of general choice models to account for a richer pattern of spatial substitution than afforded by early choice models. We argue that the generality offered by these choice models is sufficient to rethink the current view that spatial choice is a distinct field of inquiry. Our conclusion i…
Cyclone evacuation in Bangladesh
Based on two separate post-cyclone pilot surveys on evacuation behaviour during two category 4 tropical cyclones in Bangladesh—Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007—this study attempts to explain why the overwhelming majority of cyclone victims did not participate in evacuation initiatives, irrespective of significant changes in cyclone preparedness in Bangladesh following 1991. Although the two surveys were conducted in different time horizons—one abou…
Post‐flood assessment of emergency evacuation policies in the Red River basin, Southern Manitoba
A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used as a part of a post‐flood survey among the residents of four small urban communities on the Red River ‐ Emerson, Morris, Ste. Agathe, and St. Adolphe ‐ to assess their preferences for emergency evacuation policies. The respondents were asked to choose repeatedly among three hypothetical evacuation policies described in terms of (a) the type of evacuation (mandatory, voluntary, no evacuation), (b) notifi…
Estimating visitors’ travel mode choices along the Bear Lake Road in Rocky Mountain National Park
Information Complexity as a Constraint to Public Involvement in Sustainable Forest Management
This study explores the importance of information complexity and how it constrains interactive public involvement in forest management planning in Ontario, Canada. Our data was collected using five approaches: (a) content analysis of independent forest audits from 57 public forest units; (b) content analysis of self evaluated reports of effectiveness by 35 of 40 forest stakeholder advisory committees; (c) face to face interviews with 15 current a…
Managing Forest Road Access on Public Lands
Conflicts around the provision, maintenance, and removal of forest road access abound in resource management. These conflicts arise since road access benefits some people while negatively affecting others. Through qualitative interviews with key stakeholders from two northern Ontario, Canada, communities, we examined issues around road access. Conflict emerged as the core category from the interviews, with conflicts primarily arising between tour…
Loss and Change
Post‐flood assessment of emergency evacuation policies in the Red River basin, Southern Manitoba
A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used as a part of a post‐flood survey among the residents of four small urban communities on the Red River ‐ Emerson, Morris, Ste. Agathe, and St. Adolphe ‐ to assess their preferences for emergency evacuation policies. The respondents were asked to choose repeatedly among three hypothetical evacuation policies described in terms of (a) the type of evacuation (mandatory, voluntary, no evacuation), (b) notifi…
Understanding the Fish Harvesting Decisions by Anglers
This paper examined whether angling catch behaviors, angler characteristics, and angler evaluations could explain the decisions by anglers to harvest caught fish. Particularly, we determined if the propensity of tourist anglers to harvest caught walleye ( Stizostedion vitreum ), northern pike ( Esox lucius ), and smallmouth bass ( Micropterus Dolomieui ) was related to variables that measured catch rates, angling effort, catch rates for substitut…
Spatial choice modelling
This paper is designed to review recent developments in choice modelling that offer promise for studying spatial choices. In particular, we focus on the ability of general choice models to account for a richer pattern of spatial substitution than afforded by early choice models. We argue that the generality offered by these choice models is sufficient to rethink the current view that spatial choice is a distinct field of inquiry. Our conclusion i…
Recreational Fishing Site Choice Models
This article reviews published research that has focused on the recreational fishing site choices made by anglers. A conceptual model for predicting fishing site choice is developed by synthesizing the findings from past studies that employed fishing site choice models. From these and other relevant studies, six general attributes (i.e., costs, fishing quality, environmental quality, facility development, encounters with other anglers, and regula…
Remote tourism and forest management
Examining State Dependence and Place Attachment Within a Recreational Fishing Site Choice Model
Many contexts including the fidelity that recreationists have for sites may affect the choices of recreational sites by individuals. This study expands the choice model research on state dependence by examining state dependence at site and larger spatial scales. Analyses of recreational fishing site choices by anglers from northern Ontario, Canada suggest that anglers exhibit state dependence at both the site and larger spatial scales. Attempts t…
Managing Forest Road Access on Public Lands
Conflicts around the provision, maintenance, and removal of forest road access abound in resource management. These conflicts arise since road access benefits some people while negatively affecting others. Through qualitative interviews with key stakeholders from two northern Ontario, Canada, communities, we examined issues around road access. Conflict emerged as the core category from the interviews, with conflicts primarily arising between tour…
Hearing Voices from the Silent Majority
We used stated-preference choice models to examine Ontario anglers' preferred outcomes from fish stocking of Lake Huron and variations in these preferences between a random and a convenience sample. Anglers preferred outcomes that decreased risks of fish stock collapses and increased native prey fish species, average fish size, and species abundance especially for walleye (Sander vitreus) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss). Anglers from a co…
Cyclone evacuation in Bangladesh
Based on two separate post-cyclone pilot surveys on evacuation behaviour during two category 4 tropical cyclones in Bangladesh—Gorky in 1991 and Sidr in 2007—this study attempts to explain why the overwhelming majority of cyclone victims did not participate in evacuation initiatives, irrespective of significant changes in cyclone preparedness in Bangladesh following 1991. Although the two surveys were conducted in different time horizons—one abou…
Information Complexity as a Constraint to Public Involvement in Sustainable Forest Management
This study explores the importance of information complexity and how it constrains interactive public involvement in forest management planning in Ontario, Canada. Our data was collected using five approaches: (a) content analysis of independent forest audits from 57 public forest units; (b) content analysis of self evaluated reports of effectiveness by 35 of 40 forest stakeholder advisory committees; (c) face to face interviews with 15 current a…
Exploring the Acceptability of Spatial Simulation Models of Outdoor Recreation for Use by Participants in Public Participation Processes
The use of spatial simulation models in public participation processes through multiple facilitated group sessions is explored in northern Ontario, Canada. Participants evaluated the acceptability of an agent-based model of recreational fishing while working through hypothetical management scenarios. Four main concepts are linked to acceptability: credibility, comprehensiveness, comprehension, and utility. These concepts were generally consistent…
Estimating visitors’ travel mode choices along the Bear Lake Road in Rocky Mountain National Park
Evaluating the Ability of Specialization Indicators to Explain Fishing Preferences
Understanding the predictive ability of recreation specialization to explain behavior is important for wildlife and fisheries management given the widespread use of specialization to capture diversity among outdoor recreationists. Using allocation of days among fishing opportunities in a discrete choice experiment, we studied the extent that specialization predicted preferences for attributes describing the opportunities. Latent class modeling re…
Dr. Wolfgang Haider (1953 – 2015)
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the unexpected passing of Dr. Wolfgang Haider, who died on August 24, 2015 at the age of 62 following a bicycle accident in Austria. He leaves behind his wi
Exploring Reasons for Varying Support for the Status Quo among Ontario’s Moose Hunters
Strong public support for the status quo often occurs when wildlife managers propose changes to regulations and policies. We illustrated that this support is highly variable for three contexts (vague, general, and specific) that involved potentially more restrictive regulations for hunting moose (Alces alces) in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Status quo support was highest (88%) when hunters were questioned with a vague context (i.e., do you suppo…
Per trip changes to the economic value of Ontario, Canada anglers fishing the Laurentian Great Lakes under target species transitions
Changing fish communities in the Laurentian Great Lakes could substantially affect how anglers value fishing trips. Using responses from licensed Ontario, Canada anglers to potential fishing trip options, we estimated changes to per-trip values for transitioning from a walleye (Sander vitreus) to a bass (Micropterus spp.) fishery, and from a Chinook Salmon (Oncorynchus tshawytscha) to a lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) fishery. These walleye and…
Actively encouraging online responses to a mixed-mode mail and web survey
Little effort has focused on encouraging less costly, online responses within mixed-mode surveys. From an Ontario angler survey, this gap is addressed by applying a nudge (i.e., mail push to web) or control (i.e., providing a print questionnaire and return envelope) for the final mail contact. The nudge increased the share of online responses from the final contact by over 40% while only slightly decreasing (1.3%) the response rate. The nudge mos…
Geography (14 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Fishery (6 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Fishing (5 works) · Political science (5 works)