Although the response to the survey was less-than-hoped-for, we can still pull many lessons from the experience and from the preliminary results. Findings presented in this section represent a small and non-representative sample of the watershed community but can still be used to draw some preliminary conclusions and to evaluate the tool.

Because of the modest number of results, the differences presented here are not statistically significant.

One of the most important lessons to take home is the importance of effective marketing and outreach.

As you can see, most of the responses we got on the survey was from word-of-mouth, and from the postcard mailing we sent out.

For more details on the distribution of the survey, see Advertisement and Publicity.