Wildlife and Private Land

While we can make many decisions about land, there is one thing we simply cannot do. We cannot make any more of it. What we have, we have—and wildlife’s future depends very much on how we use the lands, both public and private, now resting within the powers and authority of private citizens and governments. The land debates, including the private property issues of ownership and management of residing wildlife, cannot realistically be divided into separate public and private sector discussions. All land is intertwined economically and ecologically.