Volume
41
Issue
1
Abstract
In its 30-year history, New York's Oneida County 4-H Conservation Education Field Days program generated no known controversy. That trend changed radically when a citizens group shot undercover video footage portraying the event as "children being brainwashed into thinking guns, hunting and trapping are okay." The video aired statewide and resulted in a national controversy. Oneida County 4-H responded by trying to build consensus among the organizations involved, but discovered that this was not possible. This article relates the events that precipitated this conflict, and examines the various perspectives on the conflict held by the three major organizations involved.
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Recommended Citation
Brown, S. C., Vonhof, S., & Kelley, A. (2003). The Oneida County 4-H Conservation Field Days Conflict. The Journal of Extension, 41(1), Article 3. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/joe/vol41/iss1/3
