Code for Chronic wasting disease (CWD) knowledge, risk perception, and management acceptance are influenced by media engagement and trust among deer hunters in Massachusetts
December 19, 2025
This repository contains all of the scripts to reproduce the analyses, figures, and tables associated with the manuscript Hoven et al. in prep. There is 1 Rmarkdown script that does the following: (1) format the data, (2) explores the data, and (3) goes through the analyses for each of the hypotheses (both linear models and path analysis).
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Title | Code for Chronic wasting disease (CWD) knowledge, risk perception, and management acceptance are influenced by media engagement and trust among deer hunters in Massachusetts |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9FBOMS5 |
| Authors | Graziella V Direnzo, Margaret McEachran |
| Product Type | Software Release |
| Record Source | USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS) |
| USGS Organization | Cooperative Research Units Program |
| Rights | This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal |
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Prior to wildlife disease emergence, public outreach campaigns can improve disease-related knowledge and increase the likelihood that stakeholders accept potential management actions. One wildlife disease of particular interest is chronic wasting disease (CWD), which is spreading across the United States but has not been detected in Massachusetts. We conducted a survey of deer hunters (n...
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Margaret C. McEachran, Brian M. Hoven, Martin J. R Feehan, Graziella Vittoria DiRenzo
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