I now work on the personal paradigm (all on display in the new free book on the Internet Rural System? ... Just Dreaming ) that the modern sophisticated faunal resource management that citizens of the world need can only be produced by a diverse, for-profit conglomerate.
Management of faunal areas and populations, as for a factory, requires maintenance. Profits can only be sustained by computer optimization within site specific (many relatively small GIS alpha units). Profits are long term (150-years), bounded (i.e., given landowner and legal limits, plus and minus), and need to be expressed as net expected present-discounted monetary returns. Costs include investments in land to restore, maintain, or enhance area productivity…for the period. Marketing is essential and is a cost. I'm convinced that a private organization can sustain profits reflective of citizen benefits. A key point is that natural resources have to have sustained budgets for sustained "watering and feeding," sustained protection. Unstable agency budgets or political party affiliations have not sustained the payments of these expenses, thus not the benefits. An entrepreneurial approach can clarify citizen objections, assertions, and benefits from fauna in terms of real money for real people.
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