Bill Moritz

The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) and its partners have created a forum to create a refined set of Foundational Elements of Fish and Wildlife Conservation that is current and forward-looking. The questionnaire seeks to gain insights from practitioners, policymakers, and academics about policy items to include in a future list of Foundational Elements. With over 1,200 responses already received and professional societies recently sending a request for more input, WMI has extended the questionnaire deadline to July 1.

The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) and its partners have created a forum to create a refined set of Foundational Elements of Fish and Wildlife Conservation that is current and forward-looking. The link below takes you to a questionnaire that seeks to gain insights from practitioners, policymakers, and academics about what policy items each person believes important to include in a future list of Foundational Elements. To date, we have received over 900 responses. Please consider adding your thoughts to this effort before the questionnaire closes on May 31, 2026.

It is fair to say that most R3 programs and research have focused on the first “R,” recruitment. Yet we know from consumer research it is much easier to retain a customer than to recruit a new one. That truism – coupled with the fact that the largest, most committed cohort of hunters (i.e., Baby Boomers) have reached the period of aging out – was the impetus for a recent project of the Wildlife Management Institute, partnering with Southwick Associates and DJ Case & Associates.