Frequent contributors to this blog and good friends Christopher Spatz and John Laundre have devised a way to overcome the hunter bias that has thwarted scientific focused wildlife management by state wildlife agencies, and has instead caused these Agencies to implement a "wildlife farm husbandry" paradigm that bloats the land with hoofed browsers like deer and limits the number of critical ecosystem trophic carnivores like Wolves and Pumas..................Currently, Hunter and fishermen license tag fees along with Federal fees(Pittman-Robertson and Dingell-Johnson) fuel the state wildlife Agency coffers.................................In a 2009 High Country News editorial entitled Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, outdoor journalist Hal Herring sums up the sniveling complaints by conservationists to this paradigm---- “Meanwhile, year after year, anti-hunting and allegedly pro-wildlife groups bemoan hunters’ influence over wildlife management, and celebrate the decline in hunter numbers".................. "Yet they offer no methods to replace the lost wildlife and habitat revenues that result from those declines"..........Chris and John agree it is time to stop complaining and instead time to put forth a constructive alternative source of wildlife funding that would counterbalance the influence of hunters regarding the wildlife matrix on the land-----They state:"Let's start scaring the capri off outdoor recreation industry executives making billions from wildlife watchers while complaining about wildlife management but refusing to fund wildlife"............ "If the producers and sellers won't support a wildlife excise tax, it's high time that outdoor gear consumers demand that a piece of our gear-purchase taxes get reinvested in our wildlife"................And finally, the Big ten conservation non-profits(so-called Gang of Green) like THE NATURE CONSERVANCY/SIERRA CLUB/WILDERNESS SOCIETY,, ET AL also need to step up and focus on creating a federal non-game funding answer to the current hunter focused system................Chris and John are full disclosure and reveal the truth of the current wildlife funding dilemma in saying that "Predator and wildlife advocates have no one to blame but ourselves"

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