Table 2. Respondents’ ratings of forest management objectives

May 4, 2017 Spire 2017 Issue
Mill Town and Statewide respondents’ Likert-scale rating of forest management objectives1

(1=not at all important, and 7=very important)
Maintains wildlife populations1
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 523 0.2 1.0 1.4 5.5 13.8 25.3 58.7 6.23 (1.08) -0.202 0.840
Statewide 494 0.2 0.8 1.4 5.9 11.9 22.9 56.9 6.25 (1.08)
Maintains scenic beauty
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 521 1.2 1.2 3.4 13.2 22.9 28.5 35.0 5.66 (1.31) -0.588 0.557
Statewide 494 0.6 1.8 4.5 10.1 21.1 25.7 36.2 5.71 (1.32)
Maintains water quality
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 521 0.4 0.2 1.0 3.4 10.1 26.1 64.0 6.39 (0.95) -1.234 0.218
Statewide 495 0.0 0.4 0.0 3.0 9.3 24.2 63.0 6.46 (0.84)
Maintains soil nutrients
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 521 0.2 0.6 2.0 6.3 19.6 30.0 46.8 6.05 (1.09) -0.393 0.695
Statewide 494 0.6 0.8 0.6 6.5 16.2 30.6 44.7 6.07 (1.10)
Maintains a forest’s biological diversity
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 517 0.6 0.8 2.8 12.6 19.5 27.4 41.3 5.83 (1.24) 0.087 0.931
Statewide 492 1.0 0.8 2.6 10.8 17.9 29.3 37.6 5.82 (1.26)
Limits the use of herbicide
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 518 1.2 2.0 4.5 10.8 17.9 26.2 42.7 5.77 (1.38) -1.706 0.088
Statewide 492 0.4 1.2 3.5 9.6 17.1 23.8 44.5 5.91 (1.27)
Limits the use of clear-cutting
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 520 1.4 3.0 4.7 10.4 12.6 23.0 50.6 5.85 (1.47) -0.539 0.590
Statewide 492 1.2 1.8 3.9 8.5 15.2 22.4 47.0 5.90 (1.38)
Limits the use of intensively managed forest plantations
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 508 2.7 4.1 8.1 19.7 20.5 27.4 22.8 5.13 (1.54) 0.764 0.445
Statewide 482 3.3 3.3 5.4 22.6 20.5 27.2 17.6 5.06 (1.50)
Maintains long time intervals between harvests on a particular site
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 520 2.0 2.4 6.3 14.2 18.1 30.8 31.6 5.49 (1.46) 0.261 0.795
Statewide 493 0.8 4.5 4.1 15.6 15.8 31.2 28.0 5.47 (1.44)
Maintains forest productivity to ensure wood supplies to the forest products industry
n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mean (SD) t p
Mill Town 522 0.6 0.4 2.8 7.9 12.8 30.0 51.3 6.09 (1.16) 2.109 0.035
Statewide 493 0.6 1.2 1.6 7.7 18.7 29.8 40.4 5.94 (1.18)
1 In the survey, each objective was preceded by the phrase, “Managing forests in a way that…”