Securing Alternative Funding for Wildlife Management: Insights from Agency Leaders

摘要: State wildlife management is in a period of change unlike any other its history. The growing human population most states having unprecedented impacts on the natural environment. At same time, society's interests and expectations regarding management, respectively, are changing. Increasing demands state agencies subsequent costs, as well declining relative numbers hunters, traditional funding source for have caused institution to acknowledge address need find secure nontraditional sources. We interviewed administrators from 24 understand these leaders' perspectives how their responded pressure develop alternative mechanisms. Specifically, we wanted know if agency behavior was generally consistent with typology strategic organizational response, ranging passive conformity active resistance. found evidence that exhibited this and, some cases, were innovative efforts funding. In limited by real or perceived external constraints, particularly political factors. provide modified response reflecting context management. Not all responses appropriate feasible agencies, so must evaluate environments determine which strategies offer greatest potential benefits least costs. Agencies unable behave strategically due constraints would benefit establishing broad-based partnerships, including stakeholders, purpose building support