More than 130 million persons in the United States and Canada and millions more on all continents enjoy hunting, viewing, and feeding wildlife, according to a survey reported by the Wildlife Society, the organization for professionals (Odom 108). Commercial trapping (and its counterpart, commercial fishing) makes protein nutrition for millions. Farmers and others who hunt and fish feed their families from what they shoot or catch. Wildlife or wild animals are as much a part of everyone's culture as their religion. Sometimes a species may need some protection when they become scarce. Scarcity or extinction is almost always the result of important habitats being destroyed or altered intentional environmental development. Destruction, sometimes wanton, occurs when people destroy animals such as rabbits, blackbirds, deer, and others that forage on crops, rangelands, or gardens, destroying plants being grown for use (Odom 108). Wildlife is defined as all animals that are not domesticated. So, in other words, it generally means game species that are killed for food, sport, or other reasons. Game animals are controlled or managed by the manipulation of habitat and by the establishment of seasons, licenses, and bad limits (Odom 108).
             Many natural resources professional are beginning to move away from using the term conservation in the job title because of its connotation of protection or preservation rather than valuable use or restoration. (Example: wildlife conservation is now wildlife management). The Wildlife Society is now using Wildlife Management and they define it like this: human effort to maintain or manipulate natural resources, including soil, water, plants, and animals (including man) for the best interest of the environment (including man) whether these interests be ecological, commercial, recreational, or scientific. A wildlife manager has a professional goal to assure continued, satisfactory population
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