Y-K Oral Survey

Berry Cultural Consensus Survey Community Code

Script: Thank you for taking part in this project. I am going to ask you some questions about berries in and around your community and some questions about you. Before we get started I need to read you information about your rights as a participant in this study.

Please read the following Privacy Act Statement and Paperwork Reduction Act statements aloud:

Privacy Act Statement: You are not required to provide your contact information in order to submit your survey response. However, if you do not provide contact information, we may not be able to contact you for additional information to verify your responses. If you do provide contact information, this information will not be shared with any other organization and will only be used to initiate follow-up communication with you if needed. The records for this collection will be maintained in the appropriate Privacy Act System of Records identified as [DOI Social Networks (Interior/USGS-8) published at 76 FR 44033, 7/22/2011].

Paperwork Reduction Act statements: [16 U.S.C. 1a7] authorized collection of this information. This information will be used by the U.S. Geological Survey to better serve the public. Response to this request is voluntary. We estimate that it will take 60 minutes to prepare and respond to this collection. We will not distribute responses associated with you as an individual. We ask you for some basic organizational and contact information to help us interpret the results and, if needed, to contact you for clarification.

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501), states that an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and you are not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number and expiration date. You may submit comments on any aspect of this collection. Please note that comments submitted in response to this collection are public record. Comments on this collection should be sent to the Clearance Office at [email protected].

I will provide you with a copy of this information. Do you have any questions about what I just read?

First I would like to know a little about you.

Demographic Questions

Name of Interview Participant:

Phone number of Interview Participant:

Mailing address of interview participant

Participant Code

Date of Interview / /

month day year

Gender Male Age

Female

Number of years in this community

Number of years picking berries in this community

Next I am going to read you some statements about salmonberries, blackberries, blueberries, and red berries. Many of the statements will be the same for each berry, but some will be specific to one type of berry. Please tell me if you agree or disagree with each statement by saying “yes” or “no”. If you do not know please say “don’t know” and try to avoid guessing. Do you have any questions?

These questions are about salmonberries (show picture of salmonberry; ask if there are other names this berry goes by):

Other names for salmonberries:

Salmonberry Questions	Yes	No	Don’t know
This is an important berry in my household
My family travels a farther distance than in the past to gather this berry.
My family travels a shorter distance than in the past to gather this berry.
Having a small amount of snow is associated with less berries the following summer.
If there is a lot of rain in the summer there will be less berries.
Berries are smaller than they were ten years ago.
We find more brown dead berry plants than we found ten years ago.
Smoke from fires has no impact on berries
Cold Spring temperatures have no impact on how many berries there will be.
Hot Summer temperatures impact how many berries there will be.
There are less berries than there were ten years ago.
The abundance of this berry is more variable than it was ten.
We travel less than twenty miles to pick this berry.
These berries are not impacted by ATV trails.
These berries ripen earlier in the season than they did ten years ago.
High wind events have no impact on these berries.
The landscape where we pick berries has changed.
These berries are not negatively impacted when there is flooding.
The location where we can pick these berries has changed over the last ten years.

These questions are about blackberries (show picture of blackberry; ask if there are other names this berry goes by):

Blackberry Questions	Yes	No	Don’t know
This is an important berry in my household.
We pick blackberries after the first frost.
My family travels a farther distance than in the past to gather this berry.
My family travels a shorter distance than in the past to gather this berry.
Having a small amount of snow is associated with less berries the following summer.
If there is a lot of rain in the summer there will be less berries.
Berries are smaller than they were ten years ago.
Smoke from fires has no impact on berries.
Cold Spring temperatures have no impact on how many berries there will be.
Hot Summer temperatures impact how many berries there will be.
There are less berries than there were ten years ago.
The abundance of this berry is more variable than it was ten years ago.
We travel less than twenty miles to pick this berry.
These berries are not impacted by ATV trails
These berries ripen earlier in the season than they did ten years ago.
High wind events have no impact on these berries.
The location where we can pick these berries has changed over the last ten years.
The landscape where we pick berries has changed.
These berries are not negatively impacted when there is flooding.

Other names for blackberries:

These questions are about blueberries (show picture of blueberry; ask if there are other names this berry goes by):

Other names for blueberries:

Blueberry Questions	Yes	No	Don’t know
This is an important berry in my household.
The blueberries we pick come from plants that are less than two feet tall.
My family travels a farther distance than in the past to gather this berry.
My family travels a shorter distance than in the past to gather this berry.
Having a small amount of snow is associated with less berries the following summer.
If there is a lot of rain in the summer there will be less berries.
Berries are smaller than they were ten years ago.
Smoke from fires has no impact on berries.
Cold Spring temperatures have no impact on how many berries there will be.
Hot Summer temperatures impact how many berries there will be.
There are less berries than there were ten years ago.
The abundance of this berry is more variable than it was ten years ago.
We travel less than twenty miles to pick this berry.
These berries are not impacted by ATV trails.
These berries ripen earlier in the season than they did ten years ago.
High wind events have no impact on these berries.
The location where we can pick these berries has changed over the last ten years.
The landscape where we pick berries has changed.
These berries are not negatively impacted when there is flooding.