Wildlife managers and planners are having difficulties communicating with each other. The need for improvement is urgent as wildlife agencies are increasing their planning activities within their own organizations and with other interests that are developing comprehensive area development plans. Single interest plans of various interests that could affect the wildlife resource must also be reviewed. The communication problems entail a failure of wildlife managers to recognize the objective of their communications, a failure by planners to develop a clear set of terms and a broad semantic problem. The solution to these problems consists of developing among wildlife managers an understanding of their objective and their audience when they initiate a message. Planners must establish a stable set of terms. Each discipline needs to familiarize itself with the terminology of the other.
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