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

1. WILDLIFE MANI\GERS SHOULD SEEK A BRO.l\DER cnNSTITUFNCY,
\~ILE BROADENING THE NOTION NOTION OF WHAT CONSTITUTES
WILI:LIFE MANAGEMENT.

2. WILDLIFE MANAGERS NEEDS GPEATER POLITICAL
SOPYISTICATION AND DEEPER IN~L\EMENT IN RESOURCE
DECISIONS.

~ RROADER CONSTITUENCY MEANS SEEING BEYOND THE IMMEDIAT~

snURCE OF ~DST OF THE RE\ENUES TH.l\T SUPPORT FISH AND WILDlIFE AGENCIES.

IT MEANS r:ORGING .ALUl\NCES \'HTH OTHEQ INTERESTS, SOt-tr::: THAT HA v: KINDR::l)

PURPOSES, SOME \-.JHOSE INTERESTS HA \E ONL Y OCCAS IONALL Y CO! NC IDED ~<JITH

THOSE (IF \'11 LDl I FE r-1M.1AGEMENT. .A.f\JD ^ RR()ADER CONSTITUENCY M=:ANS RELATING

\'/I LOll FE i'\ANAGEi'ENT TO THE ECONa-tI C WELLBE ING OF THE HEST.

Lnr~G AGn, ~NLIGHTENED ItHLDLIFE MA~IAGEP,S U[\!!1ERSTOOD THAT THEIR

MISSION \<JI\S NOBLER -- AND I"ORE DIFFICULT -- THAN SIMPLY ENSURING THAT

HUNTERS ANn FISHERMEN WOULD Hr'\\E OPPORTUNITIES TO HAE~\EST GA.~r: AND

FISH. ONLY A Sr>1ALL PERCENTAGE OF OUR CITIZENS HUNT AND FISH. RuT ALL

CITIZENS HA\E ^ DI\ERSITY OF NEEDS AND pOEFERENCES CONCERNING WILD_IFE

AND ITS HARITAT, AND THEY ARE ALL ELIGIBLE TO CHOOSE POLITICAL

LEADERS. PoLITICIANS C~~STANTLY MAKE CHOICES THAT DIRECTLY ANn

INDIRECTLY AFFECT WILDLIFE AND OTHER RESOURCES.

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