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 Council Focused on State’s Outdoors Legacy
MICHIGAN OUTDOOR NEWSVictor Skinner The Michigan Wildlife Council is gearing up its 2026 campaign to educate about the benefits of hunting and fishing for conservation following a survey highlighting progress over the last decade. "We're already seeing the indicators...
Killing the Future: When Deer Hunting Turns Short-Term
For most of the 20th century, deer hunters in places like Michigan saw themselves—at least in part—as participants in a renewable system. Whitetails were not just targets; they were the visible dividend of habitat, restraint, and time. The idea was simple: pass young...
Wildlife Agencies Need More Classically Trained Biologists in Fish and Wildlife Management
Fewer universities offer degrees in fish and wildlife management today than at any time in 80 years. For the past couple of decades, graduates of these programs have declined about 2% annually. In their place, training in conservation biology has become more popular,...
Conservation Efforts Shouldn’t Be a Popularity Contest
Fish and wildlife conservation operates at the intersection of science, public values, and politics. Yet when conservation becomes a contest for public approval rather than a science-based discipline grounded in ecology and long-term outcomes, both wildlife and...
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...