WFF's Guiding Principles and Strategies - Alabama Department of ...

Implementation
Major Obstacles to Implementation
• Status quo.
Principal Work Steps Required for Implementation
• Identify areas for activities utilizing multi-section personnel.
• Require supervisor and/or staff meetings on district level involving all
sections.
• Upper management encouragement of synergistic approaches.
• Implement change.
Status
• Section supervisor meetings at the district level are being held and will
continue and expand to include district staff, where beneficial. Cross
sectional cooperation on special work details have occurred (i.e.) Apple
Snail eradication, WMA boundary posting, nuisance and captive wildlife
responses.
Recommendation (Operations)
Seek and utilize all opportunities to increase public land acquisition
for hunting and fishing opportunities. Aggressively promote the
reauthorization of Forever Wild, Alabama’s legislatively and voter
approved public land acquisition program.
Basis for Recommendation
• Lands available to the Division for Wildlife Management Areas over time
are being lost. Those lands are being leased to private interests, reducing
public usage.
• Cost of acquiring land continues to increase.
• If not reauthorized, future purchase of land for hunting will be drastically
limited.
Impact
Cost of Implementation
• Cost of land acquisition.
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