Wildlife on private land is a resource that should ?be? managed by the landowner. However, in reality, very few landowners manage their wildlife. The primary reason is that they see little, if any, benefit in doing so. What is required is further research and work into the possibilities of managing wildlife on a more economic basis, so that a landowner will be able to treat it as any other crop. The benefits from a landowner managing his wildlife are many fold. Besides giving him a supplemental income, it puts more land under wildlife management, makes more game and land available to the sportsman, and indirectly lessens the pressure on public hunting areas. An added and important feature is that it should make more jobs available to the professional wildlife manager. If the wildlife profession can come up with the required answers to managing wildlife on an economic basis, the future of wildlife recreation on private land is a bright one.
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