Nimrod Society News
The Nimrod Society and its partners work to ensure The Wildlife Council Model is accepted and promoted by sportsmen as a way to perpetuate our way of life as hunters, anglers and trappers.
Educating the general public about conservation and wildlife management is the mission of a Wildlife Council.
Wildlife Councils Help Defeat Ballot Box Biology
Colorado and Michigan have established Wildlife Councils. Both have skillfully developed marketing and outreach materials about the economic and conservation benefits of hunting, angling, and trapping. In general, messages effectively target the non-hunting,...
What’s in a Word?
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...
Diversity Will Kill Us
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...
The Wildlife Council Approach To Protecting the North American Model of Conservation
The Wildlife Council Approach To Protecting the North American Model of ConservationPersistent and seemingly irreversible declines in hunter numbers have led state agencies to spend ever increasing amounts of slowly diminishing resources on hunter recruitment,...
Enough with the Politics
Wildlife Councils are the alternative to failing R3 initiativesIn 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 well, the bill gives...
Benefits Depend on Participation
Wildlife Councils are the alternative to failing R3 initiativesPersistent and seemingly irreversible declines in hunter numbers haven’t been impacted by hunter recruitment, reactivation, and retention or ‘R3’ as the hunting world has dubbed it. Almost 50% of those...
Wildlife Councils Are the Answer
Hunting, fishing can't survive without general public supportToday, 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 agencies are charged with managing wildlife...