Number: 1979-25
WHEREAS, it is essential that natural resource management be planned and executed by persons with sound professional backgrounds of educational training and experience; and
WHEREAS, fish and wildlife and other natural resources require a continuity of management if they are to serve the broadest public interest; and
WHEREAS, the continuity of natural resource management is not achieved if the administrations are shifted frequently as the results of elections;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual meeting assembled March 22-25, 1979, in Toronto, Ontario, hereby re-emphasizes its strong conviction that state resource agencies should be administered by qualified professionals with demonstrated proficiency and experience in proper resource management; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urges all conservationists to encourage the governors in their states to ensure that administrators of resource agencies be selected on the basis of professional merit rather than political qualification.