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There are
cultural, social, regulatory, economic and legal issues
associated with reasoned and responsible wildlife management. These issues are
complex and they touch our lives in ways we pay little attention to because, simply, they
work most of the time.
When
our wildlife management systems require adjustment we expect the scientific
community to design and manage appropriate remedies. Reasoned and
balanced natural resource and wildlife management solutions resulting from
science-based research is unacceptable to the animal rights groups that finance
ballot initiatives since science does not support their political agenda.
Responsible wildlife management works when we
depend upon research
scientists to provide reasoned guidance and fails when driven by emotional rhetoric
motivated by unreasoned political agenda. Our site offers information related to ballot box biology
(management of wildlife through initiatives), specifically, and the complex subject of responsible
wildlife management, generally.
Wildlife management is a public policy
area evoking powerful emotion
because of the human connection with animals. Thousands of years
of experience
- positive and negative - have taught us difficult lessons in managing
human-animal interactions for the common good of frequently
competing elements of society.
Our site
modestly illustrates the complexity of responsible wildlife management while
providing information and links to still other resources.
Understanding the complexity of the problems and issues involved in reasoned wildlife management
is essential to
making informed decisions at the ballot box and in dealing with wildlife on a
day-to-day basis.
Initiatives that regulate wildlife management
through the ballot box create more problems than they
solve. The management of wildlife needs to be conducted in a science-driven manner. It
is important for the benefit of our natural resources, as well as for reasons of
sound public policy, that
voters do not make their decisions based upon emotional misinformation, lies
driven by political
rhetoric or agendas that are based on information that does not
reflect science-driven wildlife management.
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