1. Name:
 

2. Contact e-mail/telephone number:
 

3. Interest (scientist, landowner, site manager, collector, student, other (specify)):
 

4. Are you prepared for your comments to be attributable and available on line?
  Yes No

5. Do you agree or disagree that a site based approach to the management of palaeontological heritage is a useful approach?
  Agree Disagree

6. Why? (for or against)
 

7. Is it the best approach or is there a better way?
  Yes No

8. Do you agree or disagree that management is as much about the relationship between user groups as it is about a site?
  Agree Disagree

9. Why? (for or against)
 

10. Do you agree or disagree with the principles of site management as defined in this paper? (yes or no as appropriate)

(a) Sites and the fossil material should be conserved in the best possible condition:
  Yes No
(b) KSIS and representative collections should be placed in museums:
  Yes No
(c) Fossils should be saved from destruction where ever possible:
  Yes No
(d) Collecting and/or the palaeontological interest should be accessible to as wide a public as possible:
  Yes No
(e) Management should be effective:
  Yes No
(f) Management should be inclusive and agreement on the management approach should be sought between landowners and interest groups:
  Yes No
(g) The collection of fossils should be undertaken within the law:
  Yes No
(h) Collecting should be undertaken in a responsible and sustainable manner:
  Yes No

Any comments on the above?

11. Do you agree or disagree with the conservation objectives? (yes or no as appropriate)

(a) Material available for scientific study (in situ if required):
  Yes No
(b) Key scientifically important specimens to registered museum collections:
  Yes No
(c) Fossil material is recovered from sites where it would be lost if not collected:
  Yes No
(d) Fossils collected in a sustainable fashion through responsible collecting:
  Yes No
(e) THe site remains available for scientific study and use:
  Yes No

Any comments on the above?

12. Do you accept or oppose the sale of fossil specimens?
  Accept Oppose

13. Why?
 

14. Are the proposed 10 questions of management useful?
  Yes No

15. What questions are missing?
 

16. Are the three broad management options correct or are there others?
  Yes No

17. Do you agree or disagree with the considerations for management? (yes or no as appropriate)

(a) The implications for the relationship between the different user group/s:
  yes no
(b) The effectiveness of the chosen approach:
  yes no
(c) The interests and responsibilities of the landowner/site operator:
  yes no
(d) The costs of the selected/preferred management approach:
  yes no

18. Do you believe that it is possible to have regulation even when it is not possible to enforce that regulation?
  yes no

19. If yes, why?

20. Do you agree or disagree with the management options identified for:

(a) The West Dorset Coast: Agree Disagree
(b) Conesby Quarry: Agree Disagree
(c) Loders Bypass: Agree Disagree
(d) Horn Park Quarry: agree disagree

If you disagree, why?

And finally

21. Is there anything missing in this paper? Do you have any other comments?


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