by Russ Mason | Feb 13, 2026 | News
A 2025 survey showed that 71.2% of Americans support the conservation of fish and wildlife habitats. In 2023, 86% supported actions that promote wildlife recovery, habitat connectivity, and pollution reduction. Almost 70% of Americans supported the Recovering...
by Russ Mason | Jan 15, 2026 | News
Hunting, trapping, and angling have a diversity problem. Not the kind you’re probably thinking but the sort on the bumper stickers I used to see as a kid: “You Bet Your Dupa I’m Polish”. Ask any hunter, angler, or trapper how they see themselves, and the response is...
by Russ Mason | Dec 1, 2025 | News
The Wildlife Council Approach To Protecting the North American Model of Conservation Persistent and seemingly irreversible declines in hunter numbers have led state agencies to spend ever increasing amounts of slowly diminishing resources on hunter recruitment,...
by Russ Mason | Sep 16, 2024 | News
Enough with the Politics Wildlife Councils are the alternative to failing R3 initiatives In Kentucky, the state senate is considering a bill to move the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from the Governor’s Tourism Cabinet to the Department of Agriculture. As...
by Russ Mason | Sep 16, 2024 | News
Benefits Depend on Participation Wildlife Councils are the alternative to failing R3 initiatives Persistent and seemingly irreversible declines in hunter numbers haven’t been impacted by hunter recruitment, reactivation, and retention or ‘R3’ as the hunting world has...
by Nimrod | Sep 12, 2024 | News
Wildlife Councils Are the Answer Hunting, fishing can’t survive without general public support Today, only 5% of Americans hunt and 15% fish, yet 70% of state fish and wildlife agency operating budgets depend on hunting and fishing license sales. Wildlife...
