Chapter 4: Wildlife Conservation
and Management
How Hunting and Trapping Support
Wildlife Conservation
- Since wildlife is a renewable resource with surplus, hunters
help control wildlife populations at a healthy balance for
the habitat.
- Hunting is an effective wildlife management
tool. Hunters play an important role by providing the
information from
the field that wildlife managers need.
- Funding from
hunting licenses has helped many game and non-game animals
recover from dwindling populations.
- Regulated hunting
and trapping have never caused wildlife to become threatened
or endangered.
- Hunting and trapping are effective and
inexpensive management tools used to prevent overpopulation,
the spread of disease,
and habitat destruction.
- Funding from license
sales and excise taxes on firearms and hunting/trapping
equipment has helped
to protect
and enhance wildlife habitat for game and non-game
species.
Hunters and Wildlife Conservation
Hunters spend more time, money, and effort on wildlife conservation
than any other group in society. In addition to participating
in the harvest of surplus animals, hunters help sustain game
populations by:
- Filling out questionnaires
- Participating in surveys
- Stopping at hunter check stations
- Providing samples from
harvested animals
- Helping fund wildlife management through
license fees
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