In this section we lay out the strategies we will employ to accomplish our mission. They are not in priority order. Divisions and offices have plans that specifically address implementation of these strategies.
Develop proactive, integrated research that anticipates emerging issues and ensures positive resource outcomes.
Develop leading-edge resource management programs.
Develop proactive, preventative enforcement programs that enable FWC to avoid potential and emerging problems.
Develop fish and wildlife recreation opportunities and programs that foster resource stewardship.
Improve our resource leadership position by clearly communicating where we are headed, why it is important, and how we plan to get there.
Increase stakeholder involvement and interaction on emerging issues to proactively reduce resource conflicts.
Initiate partnerships as a means of addressing the big resource issues facing Florida.
Integrate human dimensions insights into management planning and decision making.
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Integrate our activities to better achieve sustainable populations of species, protect critical habitat and high quality environmental resources.
Foster and develop the multi-disciplinary expertise of the FWC needed to ensure strategic, integrated solutions that address and solve resource problems.
Build a collaborative workforce built on professionalism, with the skills and resources needed to maximize effectiveness.
As we implement this plan, we will do so in a manner consistent with the value we place on respect for the individual and recognition of what teamwork, genuinely employed, can accomplish.
FWC leadership is about: creating a vision, aligning agency resources to accomplish the vision, and empowering people to do the work. We will work with our employees, customers and stakeholders to set the vision for Florida’s fish and wildlife future, align the resources and empower people to make this vision a reality.
These, in no order of priority, are our guides.
Balance the needs of citizens with the needs of the resource, putting the resource first in our decisions and actions.
Click here for more information Make resource decisions based on the best available science with a balance of enforcement and management practicality.
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Make consistent, thoughtful and timely decisions that keep pace with the needs of the resource.
Seek first to influence others rather than regulate them. Develop collaborative approaches to address conservation needs.
Be proactive in our actions, anticipating emerging issues and getting out in front of them.
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Adopt a landscape or big picture approach that uses interdisciplinary teams to address complex resource-management issues.
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Effectively involve citizens and staff who are closest to an issue in the decision-making process.
Use teamwork and collaboration to integrate our work effort.
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Communicate well up and down the organization, across the organization, and externally with others.
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