Similar to the issues involved in the anti-lead ammunition bans, hunting challenges involving game and non-game species have also become a flashpoint for organizations that zealously push their agendas. Again, the collaboration between state and federal agencies, incentivized academia, and biased NGOs distorts science and data to justify their narrative that hunting as part of game management is antiquated. Under this pretext, the collaborative proffers its position as well-settled science to stifle opposition with re-wilding theories that seek to reestablish the ancient hierarchy of wildlife.

Rewilding

Wildlife Restoration

Places to Hunt

Federal and State Hunting Regulations

According to these environmental zealots, special protection for apex predators such as bears, wolves, cougars, and coyotes is critical to repopulating the entire wildlife ecosystem. As a result, anti-hunting biases are necessary to counterbalance the hunting of game that is necessary to support such an ecosystem. Thus, these issues culminate in an industry of special interest groups that seek to influence the various state Fish & Game Departments to realize their ultimate utopia for wildlife.

Hunt for Truth (HFT) remains actively involved at the Department level to protect the well-established North American Model of Wildlife Management system that preserves our traditional hunting heritage while also serving conservation management of our natural resources and wildlife. The following wildlife are some of the game and non-game species that are seminal in this challenge to traditional hunting conservation.

Bear

Cougars

Coyote

Deer

Wolf