Eight hundred people applied for 24 warden-trainee positions in Texas this year. It's getting bigger, and there's lots of money behind it. It's a coming thing that we're going to have to fight. The pressure is increasing nationwide. Poachers are attacking our trophy gene pool.
People have more money.
They're retiring early. They're moving from the cities to the country. There's just more pressure on the resources. Our biggest challenge is to ensure that hunting and fishing is not lost to future generations.