Government wildlife experts could influence sprawl only by entering the development process directly

Evidence

During a question-and-answer session, someone asked how the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife could “participate more effectively in urban planning,” and the moderator directed the question to Hoppenfeld. “[B]y doing it,” he answered. Indeed, Hoppenfeld had already made the point at lunch, when a bureau official asked him pointedly why the Rouse Company was not doing more to provide wildlife habitat in Columbia. “I allowed that we have perhaps made mistakes by not doing things, or perhaps we did them poorly, out of ignorance, but that he knew better how to do it and he shouldn’t just sit around and wait for us.” Instead, the official should offer his help. The point held for the wildlife profession generally, not just the staff of the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. “Come to people in the development process,” Hoppenfeld said. “Some will turn you away for any number of reasons, but others, and I would include our company among them, would welcome you with open arms… . Leave the ivy halls and come out and join the fight for the things you value because that is really what happens. It is a battle of values.” — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 849

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Soil-conservation agencies reframed sprawl problems as soil-science failures — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 826; Wildlife conservation had to reorient toward cities because future voters knew only urban environments — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 846