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Survey123 for Unsolicited Seeds

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07-29-2020 03:51 PM
Sunny_Esri
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‎07-29-2020 03:51 PM
I am sure you have all seen the news of unsolicited seeds turning up in many states across the US which is creating obvious concern. 
State Agriculture Departments are responding in various ways, including soliciting for emails or phone calls. Others have leveraged the Esri platform, realizing this as a perfect use case for Survey123. 
States such as Ohio and Alabama have stood up their own Survey123 forms. In Ohio, they let us know that as of noon today, they received 300 reports since standing up the survey Monday afternoon! They are able to easily report this directly to USDA on a daily basis. 
To this end, we've made a little generic form as food-for-thought. If you have any questions or need any support, feel free to reach out to Sunny Fleming or Mike Bialousz.

Natural Resources ArcGIS Survey123 State and Local - Environment and Natural Resources 
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MichaelBialousz
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‎07-30-2020 01:54 PM

As a follow up to this, Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services released theirs today.  For them, they wrapped this into an ArcGIS Hub site that describes the issue and related info and incorporates the Survey123 survey.  They stood this up in a matter of hours and is already providing great return given the 1000s of calls and emails they were receiving to report the seeds.  Check out the press release and Hub site!  

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Sunny Fleming is Esri’s industry lead for public sector environment. Throughout her career, she has applied GIS concepts and technology to environmental policy, conservation, and natural resources; from monitoring species in the field to helping state parks manage assets and assess their economic impacts. She continues to pursue her passion for the environment by helping industry leaders streamline and improve their work with GIS technology, whether in the field or in the office, and whether setting policy or managing wildlife and resources. Her academic background is in botany and plant ecology, being a proud graduate of UT Chattanooga. She's chased lemurs in Madagascar trying to collect their poop, repelled into sinkholes in Appalachia to count ferns, and scrambled shale cliff faces that hadn't been explored since the 1800's. She resides in Nashville, TN with her husband Chris- an environmental consultant - and their two dogs Elsie and Alex.