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Thank you all for your input and insights. I initiated this project because I expected the growing popularity of rock climbing to lead to greater environmental awareness and participation in conservation/preservation activites, but that hasn’t happened. Environmental impacts from climbing and other outdoor activities, as well as climate and extraction, are increasingly well documented in the scientific literature. We hope to identify the kinds of environmental stewardship practices that climbers are most likely to engage in so that climbing organizations can develop more effective programs and recruit more climber-volunteers.

n example of effective engagement and participation of climbers in environmental conservation is the delisting of the White Haired Goldenrod in Red River Gorge - http://rrgcc.org/access-issues/2016/01/ ... emony.html

Good point, captain static.

jeallison4 - just curious if this study has already been carried out with different results than what you mention above? From what I understand, the following study has passed peer review and articles on it will be in print within the next year: https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED581008