Primary objectives:
- Assess a 20-county region in southern Illinois, including stakeholder perspectives of emerging threats and opportunities
- Assess the role of Dixon Springs Agricultural Center from the perspective of regional stakeholders
SIRAP fast facts:
- Project began May 2006.
- Research conducted by Dr. Courtney Flint and Dr. Stephen Gasteyer, rural sociologists in the College of ACES. Flint and Gasteyer and their team of student researcher assistants produced a set of draft reports and fact sheets covering multiple dimensions of the 20-county region.
- Funded by the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the State of Illinois.
The final version of the SIRAP Report is available below as PDF files. All materials copyright © 2007 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. All rights reserved.
Contents
- SIRAP Report Cover
- Report Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Southern Illinois Agriculture
- Farming Survey
- Perspectives from Agricultural Stakeholders
- Southern Illinois Land Use
- A Sampling of the History of Dixon Springs Agricultural Center
- DSAC Stewardship Week
- Social Context of Shawnee National Forest
- Wildlife Management and Private Forestland Management
- Southern Illinois Water Use
- Southern Illinois Water Quality
- Historical Overview of Socio-demographic Changes
- Socioeconomic and Demographic Characteristics of Pope County and Southern Illinois
- Income and Employment
- Indicators of Health
- Perspectives from Extension Educators
- Perspectives from Government Stakeholders
- Appendix A: Characterizations of Southern Illinois by Agricultural Stakeholders
- Appendix B: Farmer Comments on Dixon Springs Agricultural Center
- Appendix C: County Fact Sheets