Speak for Wolves is a project that aims to educate, inspire and organize citizens to work towards reforming wildlife management in America. Join fellow wildlife advocates on August 7-9 at the Union Pacific Dining Lodge in West Yellowstone, Montana for Speak for Wolves 2015.
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The first of the five keys to reforming wildlife management in America.
1. Restructure State Fish & Game Department Operations
Western governors currently appoint fish and game commissioners, who in-turn use their authority to influence agency policy, particularly predator management. This is cronyism at its worst. State fish and game departments are funded in large part by the sale of hunting, trapping, and fishing licenses. As a result, these agencies serve the primary interest of “sportsmen”, while sentiments of citizens that do not hunt, fish or trap are given considerably less consideration. Terminating the political appointment of agency commissioners, creating innovative funding mechanisms, applying…
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Exposing the Big Game 
Management of predators in particular should not be at the state level. State wildlife agencies represent traditional enemies of wolves, lions, bears, and bison, wolverines, coyotes. Game is managed for “sportsmen” and ranchers. This situation creates game farming and marginalization of predators, a drive down their numbers attitude. It is political management and a distortion of normal wildlife ecology. “Management” to state wildlife agencies means killing.