No hunting license finds were used for non-game or endangered species work. In fact, the New York State Conservation Council, a powerful coalition of fish and game clubs, has consistently opposed the use of hunting license money to fund non-game management and endangered species restoration. The wildlife department of other states operate in essentially the same fashion. By contrast, Montana has more than 700 species that ate officially classified as non-game, including eagles, falcons, badgers, and marmots. Mainly they manipulate wildlife and its habitat to provide targets for hunters.
Game managers have a broad public land base with which to operate.
In most states only a few non-metropolitan parks are protected from hunting, and many states are now opening their state parks to hunters because of a decline in lands available for hunting combined with an increase in the posting of private rural acreage. In New York, for example, more than half of the state parks have been opened to hunters. Meanwhile, most states spend comparatively little money for significant habitat acquisition, and when the do, the parcels that are purchased are rarely off limits to hunting. The effect that this has on wildlife is often disastrous. Most state wildlife agencies stock a few favored game species such as the ring- necked pheasant and wild turkey, but do little stocking of endangered species.