Wildlife agencies face the limits of sportsmen-funded conservation

Declining western state fish and wildlife agency budgets are being further squeezed as a result of not being able to rely on fishing and hunting license fees increases.

In spite of 12 sportsmen and conservation groups like Wyoming Trout Unlimited, Wyoming Wildlife Federation, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and the Muley Fanatic Foundation of Wyoming asking the state to charge more for hunting and fishing, Wyoming’s legislature had no appetite for putting more expenses on the backs of sportsmen. It would be a politically unpopular move in this time of intense budget scrutiny.

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