To commemorate its 100^th Anniversary, the Wildlife Management Institute has produced a new, numbered, limited-edition of the classic book An American Crusade for Wildlife by James B. Trefethen. The book is a Boone & Crockett Club title, but has been out of print for a number of years. Reprised by WMI with the Club's permission and solely for a limited-edition run of 500 copies, the book is being made available to persons who contribute $100 or more to the Institute's natural resource management programs.

When the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) first introduced the Pinedale Anticline Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Project on the mesa near Pinedale, Wyoming, in 2000, the agency was applauded for its progressive venture "to showcase adaptive management and its potential to mitigate environmental concerns while facilitating development." Now, more than a decade later, the project may have more to offer as a "case study focusing on barriers to adaptive management," than as a flagship example of flexible, science-based decision making, reports the Wildlife Management Institute.

The final negotiations on spending levels for the remainder of fiscal year 2011 proved to be less devastating to conservation programs than proposed in earlier versions of the bill, reports the Wildlife Management Institute.

Wildlife biologist, educator, policy maker and administrator, Alan Wentz is the recipient of the Wildlife Management Institute's 2011 George Bird Grinnell Award for Distinguished Service to Natural Resource Conservation. The honor was conferred during the 76^th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference last month in Kansas City, Missouri.

Wentz, recently retired as Chief Operations Officer for Ducks Unlimited, Inc., has had a 40-year career of dedicated and progressively influential leadership in the professional conservation community.

Declining revenues have prompted at least three western states to consider consolidating their fish and wildlife agencies with other parts of government, reports the Wildlife Management Institute. While aimed at reducing costs, some proposals also could affect how wildlife policies, including hunting and fishing regulations, are set by changing the role or make up of citizen commissions.

On the opening day of the 76^th North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, a Special Session was dedicated to assessing the potential opportunities outlined in the Obama Administration's new natural resource conservation initiative. The America's Great Outdoors: A Promise to Future Generations report, released on February 16, is the result of a national dialogue initiated by the Administration to identify priorities for conservation and for engaging future generations in natural resource management.