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Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management

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Cross Current: Agency vs. Enterprise

Now there are excessive numbers of students and departments within universities. There are vast agencies, high taxes, reduced hunters (and thus that historically useful funding base), and shifting citizen interests -- from rural to urban -- but much private land, both in industrial forests and well as the small non-industrial private forest/wildland. The land owner is now primarily a college graduate. Needs have changed. Needs have expanded and diversified. Often total systems are needed, not those of one agency.

The agency is needed to formulate laws and regulations and to enforce them, to conduct generally useful research and studies, and to monitor the wildlands and their conditions. That may be all. There seem to be new opportunities for private work in wildlife resource management, in faunal systems. These are enterprises and several are suggested within this Web site such as in Ranging.

Once there were public soil testing labs. Private labs grew and finally, after court action, got the public labs to stop competing unfairly with government subsidy. Perhaps there is a useful analogy here. Perhaps inadequate services by public employees (with political and tax caps on employment by agencies) can be overcome by the services of private companies, enterprises.

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