Additionally, all citizens can help wildlife if they: 



• Support federal, state, and local efforts to develop land-use plan- 

 ning programs that protect vital wildlife habitat from unnecessary and 

 haphazard development. 



• Urge public officials to consider wildlife in all programs affecting 

 land and water developments. 



• Insist that agriculture, flood-control, and other publicly subsidized 

 government programs yield broad public benefits in the form of wildlife 

 enhancement. 



• Realize that wetlands are not wastelands but essential units of the 

 landscape that have important ecological functions of economic and 

 cultural importance to man. 



• Reject simplistic panaceas for maintaining and restoring wildlife 

 based on unscientific emotion. 



The perpetuation of wildlife requires the attention of well-trained and 

 experienced specialists. Each state now has a staff of such scientists. 

 See that they have the public support and funds needed to carry out 

 their work in a climate free from political meddling. 



America can retain and expand its rich wildlife heritage if it applies 

 scientifically sound facts to the management of all wild species and if its 

 citizens harmonize their activities with the systems of nature. 



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