http://www.nrwm.org/wildlife-conservation-management-funding-in-the-u-s-2/
Wildlife Conservation & Management Funding in the U.S.
By Mark E. Smith and Donald A. Molde
October 2014
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The authors present a novel approach to help answer the question “Who really pays for wildlife in the U.S?” Using public information about budgets of various conservation, wildlife advocacy, and land management agencies and non-profit organizations, published studies and educated assumptions regarding sources of Pittman-Robertson Act and Dingle-Johnson Act federal excise monies from the sale of sporting equipment, the authors contend that approximately 95% of federal, 88% of non-profit, and 94% of total funding for wildlife conservation and management come from the non-hunting public. The authors further contend that a proper understanding and accurate public perception of this funding question is a necessary next step in furthering the current debate as to whether and how much influence the general public should have at the wildlife policy-making level, particularly within state wildlife agencies.
Read the full paper here: Smith Molde Wildlife Conservation & Management Funding in the US Oct14 FINAL
Exposing the Big Game 
It’s what we (anti-hunters) have always suspected but we are indebted to these authors for conclusively documenting the case. Not that it will matter any when trying to hold a rational debate with hunters since they are all, almost without exception, lying, bullying, sociopathic lowlifes impermeable to rational thought. Like trying to explain to a Ted Bundy or Jeffry Dahmer that augmented police department and SVU budgets aren’t countable among their noble deeds.
The question is whether the general public should be allowed a proper voice. And you are right that no “proper voice” is going to be tolerated if the lowlifes have their way. They already have their way. I think we are doomed.
I concur about the indebtedness — and how crucial it is to have these figures in one place. By their own admission, their estimates are conservative with Pittman-Robertson. And when you consider the many local, regional and independent non-hunting conservancies that extend over thousands of acres, I think the numbers have to be much higher still, tilted toward non-hunting contributions.