. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Epilogue: CWS — A Work Still in Progress 175 environmental organizations, Monte Hummel, President of World Wildlife Fund Canada, has been particularly well positioned to observe and evaluate this role. In his words: There are a few organizations within government which manage to grow into something more than just another bureaucracy, to emerge with a history, spirit and cuUure uniquely their own. Such is the Canadian Wildlife Service. To work with CWS is to work with a group of profes- sionals who actually care about wildlife in Canada. They are s
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1999 Burnett: Epilogue: CWS — A Work Still in Progress 175 environmental organizations, Monte Hummel, President of World Wildlife Fund Canada, has been particularly well positioned to observe and evaluate this role. In his words: There are a few organizations within government which manage to grow into something more than just another bureaucracy, to emerge with a history, spirit and cuUure uniquely their own. Such is the Canadian Wildlife Service. To work with CWS is to work with a group of profes- sionals who actually care about wildlife in Canada. They are seemingly in every nook and cranny of the country, and no matter what the issue, someone somewhere in CWS will have something intelligent to say about it. Sometimes the Service is quietly raising concerns from within; sometimes it tactfully sows concern outside gov- ernment; and nearly always it is at the table to help bro- ker solutions. In my experience, its principal shortcom- ing has been the sometimes petty turf wars that have plagued federal/provincial relations in Canada since Confederation. But it has been refreshing to find CWS sharing our frustration when these rivalries impede what's best for Another long-time observer of CWS is Janet Foster, historian, author of the recently republished book Working for Wildlife,^ and, in partnership with John Foster, one of Canada's foremost wildlife film- makers. Asked to provide an "outsider's view" of CWS, she was quick to respond: It is quite remarkable how an agency set up principally to administer migratory bird regulations came to assume so many different responsibilities and to handle them so suspect part of the reason for CWS's success is that it has always attracted the "best and the brightest" of personnel — scientists, biologists, field researchers, and many others who began and continued their careers there. I strongly suspect that it's their hard work and dili- gence that ha
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