Since highways, houses, industrial developments and shopping centres are continually reducing the habitats available to wildlife, we must produce more per unit of area if we are to sustain present wild animal populations.
Habitat management is the key to sustained wildlife numbers.
There is a place for wilderness, a place for management, a place for contemplative use, a place for utilization, a place for cooperation with other resource managers and users, but as suggested by Peterson, people interested in the conservation of wildlife resources are going to have to get together, agree on common objectives, make their voices heard and be willing to pay. Bickering serves only to obscure the sincere and common goal of all conservationists, and that is the maintenance and wise use of our wildlife resources. If we can appreciate the other's perspective, we and our wildlife resources will gain. If we don't and are divided we all lose. Wildlife has been taken for granted while land development has been taking away habitat.