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

\'JHA T MI GIr Y^ \f. C I RST HA \E SEEt~ED TO BE CR^SS PRAGMfI,TI 51"1.

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rORE THAN ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, THERE \'JAS A DEBATE O\.ER WHAT

ARGUMENTS SI-IOIILD BE MADE TO THE NEW YORK STATE LEG ISLA TURE IN F A \OR OF

PROTECTING AN ADIRONDACK WILDERNESS PRESER\.E. SPORTSMEN AND OTHER

LO \ERS OF NATURE J:OUND THAT THEY COULD NOT PURSUADE THF: LEGISLATURE
EFFECTI\fLY ABOUT NO~'J-UTILITARIAN PURPOSES OF THE PRESERV:. IN 1873 A

NEW PERIODICAL FOR SPORTSMEN, FOREST AND STREAM, URG~D ITS R~ADEPS TO

PUT ASIDE TH~ IR RO'1ANTIC ARGUMENTS AND STOP DI:CRYING DE \.ELOPMENT AND

PROGRESS. I NSt=:l\D, THE PURLICATIOfl SAID TH,U THEY SHOULD POIr-.JT OUT

TH6.T THE PRESER\E W,S NECESSARY TO ENSURE A PURE, ADEOUATE AND

REGULATED SUPPLY OF \'IAT~R TO NptJ YORK. FOREST ,l\i'ID STRE.tl.M URGF:D THE

LEGISLATURE TO "LOOK AT PRESER\tfI.TION OF THE ADIRONDACKS AS A QUESTION

OF SELF-INTEREST." THEY DID, AND ULTIMATELY THEY SUCCEEDED IN GF.TTING

715,000 ACRES SET ASIDE AS "WILD FOREST LANDS."

HILDLIFE t~ANAGF.RS ARE IN AN EXCELLENT DOSITION TO TOUT A
~RIETY OF BENEFITS FR~~ PROTECTED HABITATS. AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
CAN COt'1PETE \fRY V.JELL IN ECONO'~IC DEBATES THAT INCREASINGLY DETERMINE
OUTCOMES OF RESOURCE DECISIONS.

THE SECOND GOAL I BEll E \.E \'11 LDL I FE MANAGERS MI 1ST PURSUE 1 S

ACHIEVING A GREATER LE\EL OF POLITICAL SOPHISTICATION. AGENCIES

CHARGED WITH MANAGING WILDLIFE IN THE UNITED STATES HA\E REACHED A

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