Detailed Cost/Strategy Implementation Profile 



Strategy - ESTWINTCVR/ANY 

 Cost for 2.00 Units Starting in Year 1 



Year 1 Totals 



0/M 630 2704 



DIS 0/M 419 2138 



Press Return to Continue 



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Figure 5. Detailed Cost/Strategy Implementation Profile - Strategy - ESTWINTCVR/ 

 ANY (establish winter cover in any habitat type). 



decisions. This limitation can be substantially reduced, given sufficient time and a 

 commitment of financial and personnel resources. 



A third limitation is the lack of historical proof that WILDMIS or any of its 

 components really "work." Logic and risk will have to be substituted for 

 demonstrable results for several years. The alternative is to continue with old 

 ways, which, judging from habitat and wildlife population loss rates, have not 

 themselves been shown to work particularly well. 



Mention of the words "systems." "models" or "computers" in connection with 

 wildlife management sometimes creates a negative attitude and a feeling among some 

 people that sophisticated technologies will or might displace personal experience, 

 knowledge and judgment. On the contrary, the most valuable contributions to date 

 of the input information that drives WILDMIS have come from research and 

 management biologists with many years of experience. This kind of logical, 

 structured information processing can actually make the individually-held 

 knowledge of wildlife research and management professionals more useful in the 

 decisionmaking process. 



Finally, to use a new method requires learning. There is enough written 

 information available so that anyone having basic biological training could become a 

 self-taught and a proficient user of the whole WILDMIS system. There is nothing 

 technically rigorous or mysterious within it. 



CONCLUSIONS 



Ten years ago there was no comprehensive and systematic approach to setting 

 wildlife production objectives, analyzing habitat and choosing among alternative 

 wildlife management actions. The research that resulted in WILDMIS provides such 

 a device. Perhaps the most valuable potential of WILDMIS lies in improved 

 communication between biologists and the public through the translation of 

 scientific detail into numbers of animals and dollars, measurements more readily 

 understood by persons who make policy and action decisions. 



By making the analysis of action options convenient, specific, and quantitative, 

 WILDMIS can increase a manager's capability to analyze consequences of negative 



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