7943

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7943
• Author: Getches, D. H.
• Title: As Wildlife Goes, So Goes The West, ‎(for the annual meeting of The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)‎.
• USFW Year: 1985.
• USFW - Doc Type: July 17, 1985.
• Copyright Material: NO

LARG1=:R SK! I\REAS -- LIKE THIS ONE AT SNOvlr~^SS -- ARE OPEN ALI_ YF.flR A~.ID
PROt"DTE TH: ~~ONDERFUL WILDLIFE AND FISH RESOURCES Ii,S ATTRACTIONS FOR
\II SITaRS. SI( I AOEA DE \.fLOpr~ENT HAS OFTEN COf''1E T NTO CONFLI CT vII TH
SOUND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT. BuT THAT SHOULD ENCOURAGE, NOT PRE\ENT
\'K)RKING CLOSELY \'1ITH SKI AREA OPERATORS IN MATTEDS OF cOVt"tOf\I INTEREST
SUCH AS sOtJ~m DE \fLOP~~ENT OF NEW SK I AREAS AND PROMOTION OF THE
RESOURCES THAT C.ACH OF US EMPI-lASIZE.

FROM TIr.1E TO TIME I HA \E HEARD CRITICISM THAT WILDLIF~
rvt/\NAGERS AqE "HINDERING PROGRESS" OR ARE "ANTI-DF\ELOpr~ENT" BECAUSE
THEIR CO'\\\ENTS ON DE \F.LOPMEl\IT PLANS MAY LEAD TO RETHINKING SITING OF A
PO~IER PLANT, Ir-iPOSE MITIGATION COSTS FOR A DAM, OR PRE\ENT THE
RIPRAPPHlG OF A STREAM. DJESNIT THAT DISTORT \'MAT IS REALLY
HAPPENING? HU~JTING AND FISHING ACCOUNTS FOR O\ER A BILLION DOLLARS nF
EXPENDITURES IN fOLORADO E~CH YEAR WHICH, IN TURN, ACCOUNTS FOR
SE \ERAL BILLIO~1 IN COLLA.TERAL ECONOMIC ACTI VITY. ISN'T IT APPPOPRIATE
FOR US TO INSIST THAT THAT SEGMENT OF THE ECONOMY BE PROTECTED? HE
NEED NOT CONVINCE ANYONE THAT HABITAT PROTECTION SHOULD BE DONE JU~T
BECAUSE IT I S GOOD FOR FURRY CREATURES OR "RI GHT" BY SCXV1E
"Nl\TURALISTIC" NOTIONS. THERE ARE SOUND ECONOMIC JlJSTlFICATIO~JS,

PEOPLE IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT TODA.Y REALIZE THE PRACTICAL

IMPORTANCE OF USING ECONOf~IC ARGUMENTS, AND OF ESTABLISHING

CONNECTIONS WITH THE SELF INTEREST OF WIDER GROUPS THAN JUST THOSE

ASSOCIATED \'IITH WILDLIFE. PuRISTS HA\.f O\ERCOrvE THEIR OBJECTIONS TO

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