Wildlife Management Institute

The Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Alliance’s promotes responsible and accurate communications regarding CWD and supports strategies that effectively control CWD to minimize its impact on wild, free-ranging deer and elk populations.

The Conservation Leaders for Tomorrow Program offers university students in wildlife science and in biology programs who have never hunted the opportunity to experience the sport—as a valid management tool, as a recreational activity with a social and historical basis, and as a self-fulfilling pursuit.

To address concerns about the future of mule deer across their range, the Mule Deer Working Group was established, in 1998, at the midwinter meeting of the Western States Fish and Wildlife Agencies.

State fish and wildlife agencies have developed State Wildlife Action Plans that assess the condition of each state’s wildlife and habitats, identify the problems they face, and outline the actions that are needed to conserve them over the long term.

The Northern Bobwhite Conservation Initiative is a cooperative effort among states and private interests to restore habitat for bobwhites and other declining grassland wildlife.

The Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis canadensis, formerly Dendragapus canadensis) Continental Conservation Plan was created to provide range-wide and Bird Conservation Region (BCR) assessments of spruce grouse population size, habitat abundance, current threats, management recommendations and research needs.

The Western Quail Management Plan (Plan) has been developed under the auspices of the Resident
Game Bird Working Group of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies.  The development of the Plan
is part of a continuing effort to establish species-specific or species-group-specific conservation strategies
to guide resource planning and on-the-ground habitat management initiatives.

The Wildlife Management Institute (WMI) is available to conduct reviews of wildlife and natural resource agency programs and functions. At the request of agencies, WMI has successfully completed over 70 reviews of fish and wildlife programs in more than 40 states and 4 provinces. WMI has also compiled and published national summaries of the organization, authority and programs of state fish and wildlife agencies in 1948, 1968, 1977, 1987 and 1997.

The Woodcock Conservation Plan emerged from the efforts of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state wildlife management agencies agencies and non-governmental organizations known as the Woodcock Task Force.