Request for Policy Analysis Group (PAG) Project

Replies to the questions below will help us design a useful project report consistent with the PAG mission – “to provide timely, scientific and objective data and analysis, and analytical and information services, on resource and land use questions of general interest to the people of Idaho” (Idaho Code § 38-714) – and to work with the PAG Advisory Committee to determine project priorities.  For additional information, identification of Advisory Committee members, and examples of PAG reports, please visit our website: http://www.cnr.uidaho.edu/pag.

You have two options for completing the form: [1] obtain the electronic version of the form on the PAG website and submit the completed form with replies directly following each question, or [2] fill out a printed version of the form, attaching additional sheets with your numbered replies, and mail the form and sheets to us.  If you need help, contact Jay O’Laughlin, PAG director, or Philip Cook, PAG research associate, by phone (208-885-5776), FAX (208-885-6226), e-mail (pag@uidaho.edu) or postal service: CNR-PAG, University of Idaho, P.O. Box 441134, Moscow, ID 83844-1134. 

                                                                                  Date: ______________

Your name . . . . . . .  . . . :_______________________________________________

Your title . . . . . . . .  . . . :_______________________________________________

Agency or organization  . . : ______________________________________________

Address. . . . . . . . . . . . . : ______________________________________________

                                       ______________________________________________

Telephone: ___________________________  Fax :____________________________

e-mail:  _____________________________________________________________

1. What is the resource management issue you are concerned about?

2. Why is your agency or organization concerned about this issue?

3. Which other organizations are likely to have concerns about this issue?

4. Where is this issue a particular problem in Idaho?
 

5. Which policy or policies are related to the issue (federal or state laws, agency practices, etc.)?
 

6. How are these policies related to the issue?

7. Who would be interested in a policy analysis of this issue; i.e., who would read the project report?
 
8. When would a project report be most useful, and why did you select that date?

9. What do you suggest for the name of the policy analysis project report?

10. What length would you suggest for the project report? Check one box below:

 o Short = 10 pages or less; o Medium = 11-50 pages; o Long = more than 50 pages

11. What are the main questions the project report should try to answer? (The main questions you identify might be used as the outline of a PAG project report.)