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The management implications (MI) section of articles in The Journal of Wildlife Management ( JWM) and Wildlife Society Bulletin ( WSB) is meant to relay transparent, applicable information from researchers to managers. I questioned whether this goal was being met because inspection of paper titles in these journals showed many studies do not address management topics. Accordingly, I developed a classification scheme for statements in the MI section and analyzed the nature and content of randomly selected MI sections ( n = 80) in Volume 72 (2008) of JWM. Management implications (deductions or inductions) made up 5.5 ± 1% standard error of statements in the sample ( n = 562 statements). Accordingly, >90% of the statements in the sample of MI sections were not MIs. The MI heading does not inform readers of section content. I recommend a more flexible heading (e.g., Implications, Research Needs, Recommendations, Conclusions) or elimination of the section because salient material usually appears in other sections of a paper anyway. © 2011 The Wildlife Society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author presents the perspectives of editors-in-chief of the journal on the journal on the occasion of its 75th anniversary. Eric G. Bolen says that the journal "Wildlife Society Bulletin" started as a means basically designed as a venue for papers dealing with management efforts rather than those with an research focus.