The Hunter's Role in Wildlife Conservation

Because wildlife is a renewable resource with a surplus, hunters help control wildlife populations at a healthy balance for the habitat.

• Regulated hunting has never caused a wildlife population to become threatened or endangered.
• Hunting is an effective wildlife management tool. Hunters play an important role by providing information from the field that wildlife managers need.
• Revenue from hunting licenses is a primary source of funding for wildlife management and has helped many game and non-game species recover from dwindling populations.

• The surplus game animals that hunters harvest usually would have died from other causes.