PartnerRoundThe Red Rock Valley Study
You are advising the Red Rock Valley Conservation Authority. The valley holds the last viable population of the Red Rock pika, a small alpine mammal whose numbers have fallen sharply over the last decade.
The Authority has a fixed annual budget and must choose between three interventions. Your job is to work out which one does the most for the population, using only the evidence provided.
Not all of the material below bears on the question. Part of your score depends on pulling the right evidence into your journal and leaving the rest.
Determine which single intervention produces the largest increase in the Red Rock pika population over a ten-year horizon, within the Authority's annual budget of $400,000.
Investigation. Read the exhibits and pull the notes that bear on the objective into your Research Journal. Every note is true. Half of them change nothing, and taking them anyway costs you.
Analysis. 3 scored calculations, one at a time, with your journal and a calculator to hand.
Report. Commit to a recommendation and say what would change it.