ENDANGERED NO LONGER SPORTSMEN MAKING SURE WILDLIFE HERE TO STAY.(Travel)

Byline: Dick Nelson Outdoors correspondent

Recent news accounts involving the spotted owl and other endangered species have people beginning to believe all wildlife is nearly extinct. Not so. Today there are many species of American wildlife whose populations have been restored to healthy and abundant numbers.

The healthy and abundant populations of white-tailed deer, wood duck, elk and many other species we have today didn't just happen. They are the result of sound wildlife management, habitat improvement and acquisition paid for primarily by America's sportsmen.

The future of wildlife is a lot brighter today than it was at the turn of the century. But the early 1900s, expanding civilization and commercial exploitation had resulted in a drastic decline of many species.

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