UPEP Overview
In spring 2023, faculty and graduate students from eight programs and two colleges at USU put together the first iteration of the Utah People and Environment Poll or UPEP. The objective of the UPEP is to periodically (every 1-2 years) survey adult Utah residents about their perceptions on longstanding and emerging environmental and natural resource issues of importance to the state and use the data to inform research and decision-making related to social-environmental issues. The UPEP uses a high quality probability-based sampling methodology to provide a true representative survey of Utah residents. Questions on issues such as: natural resource management, environmental health, energy, water and drought, air quality, public lands, climate change, wildfires, snowpack, etc. Please see below for additional information and publications using the UPEP data.
2024/2025 Project Reports
2024/2025 Policy Briefs
