Wildlife Damage Management in the Digital Age: Collaborating With Others

• Main Authors: L. C. "Fudd" Graham, Janet Hurley, Kathy Flanders
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Utah State University 2017-02-01
• Series: Human-Wildlife Interactions
• Subjects: collaboration; extension; human–wildlife interactions; wildlife damage management
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol9/iss2/4
• ISSN: 2155-3874; 2155-3874

Three seemingly disparate Communities of Practice (CoPs)—Urban Integrated Pest Management (Urban IPM), Wildlife Damage Management (WDM), and Imported Fire Ants—came together to promote IPM and WDM by sharing information on websites and through webinars. Originally, each CoP on the eXtension web site was set up to be a unique information source. It became clear very early in eXtension’s development that many of these unique, single-topic sites had information that could be used by others. These 3 CoPs had the foresight to work together and link information, rather than creating new material.