GR:  My home state (Arizona), and probably all the rest, act like this. The Arizona Game and Fish Department promotes the sale of hunting licenses, The Idaho Department is encouraging a hunting derby, and Nevada’s wildlife department looks about the same. Forcing wildlife managers to support themselves with hunting license sales is not a good idea. Too tempting to place hunting and revenue ahead of protection.

Wildlife Mismanagement

Photo: Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

“We have known for a long time that the administration of Scott Walker and his appointments to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources pander to the most extreme elements in our society, but a scheduled meeting between a local “patriot” group and DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp takes this to a new level. The former real estate developer turned DNR Secretary, Stepp, recently admitted to excluding pro-wildlife factions from their “Wolf Advisory Committee” in favor of extremist hunting lobbying groups. On top of that news Stepp had scheduled a “meeting” with a so-called “patriot” group known as the “Prairie Patriots.” This is how the “Prairie Patriots” describe themselves….”

Source:  Our Wisconsin, Our Wildlife