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Abstract
It is our responsibility as natural resource professionals to build stronger and
more relevant ways to connect the public and ourselves with the importance of
local, regional, and global aquatic resources
• Creative and relevant outreach efforts must engage people that are physically or
mentally separated from the natural environment to understand the critical
components that support all of us.
• Measures that allocate the quantity of resources used in the production, dis-
tribution, and consumption of products are excellent tools for understanding the
complexity of individual personal decisions.