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

~.-,= SAI.I AN r:Xi\MPLE OF Ho,'l MUCH THE PUBLIC CARESI\ND IS
COM~ITTED TO WILDLIFE DURING THE WINTER OF 1984 IN COlORADO. RANCHERS,
TRUCKERS', .l\ND A \.€RAGJ:: CITIZENS TURNED OUT IN FORCE TO HELP OUR Dr VI S ION
OF HILDLIFE IN ITS PIONEERING PROGRAM OF WINTER FEEDING OF DEER AND
ELK. THE PROGRA'-l WAS SUCCESSFUL THANKS TO THOSE \OUJNTEER EFFORTS .AND
TO DONATIONS OF GR.A.IN BY BREWERIES, FOODS BY SUPERt~ARKETS AND DIMES
.l\ND mCKELS lW THOUSANDS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN AND OTHEPS.

\1HAT OOES THE PUBLIC WANT FROt~ ~JILDlIFE t'lANAGEMENT? THEY
!-lA \f \OT::D rw THe: I R l\CTI OtJS . IN (OLOPAOO "IE KNOW THA T snt~F Sf: \fNTY
PERCENT OF OUR CITIZENS ENJOY WILDLIFE NONCONSU~pTI \fLY. THEY \'-/ANT TO
PHOTOGQAP!-l nnUNTAIN GOATS, WATCH SONGP.IRDS, HEAR BUGLING ELK, SEE f:ISH
DARTING UNDER THE CUTBACKS OF A MOUNTAIN STREAM. PEOPLE \~HO H.ll, \.E
NE \.€q SEEN ^ PE~EGRINE FALCON SOAR THROUGH THE SKY vlORRY WHEN THEY
HEAR TH.U IT IS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION.

CnLOPADANS HA\.€ ALSO \OTED FOR NONGAME WITH THF.IR

DOLLARS. YEARS AGO OUR DI VISION OF VlILDLIFE ESTABLISHED THE FIRST

NONGAME INCOME TAX CHECKOFf: PROGRN~. THE PROGRAM HAS RAIS~D SE\fRAL

HUNDRED THOUSANDS OF DOlLARS EACH YEAR FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR

SPECIES THAT ARE NOT HUNTED OR FISHED. TWENTY-EIGHT STl\TES HA.\f. NOW

ESTABLISHED SUCH PROGRAMS.

ft. THOUGH I .~ PROUD OF OUR NONGAME CHECKOFF PROGRAM, IT RUNS
THE RISK OF ARTIFICIALLY COMPARTMENTALIZING OUR TASK. IF OUR BUSINESS

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