I believe that we oftentimes do not have sufficient information. We don't necessarily have the research base to make the right management decisions. It goes right across almost all wildlife management. We usually need more information about how to do things well.
An example that comes to mind recently is that I visited an area that has sage grouse in southern Alberta. The Alberta Conservation Association was trying to work with local farmers to redirect the grazing pressure in places where they thought it would take them out of the lowland areas that had lots of sagebrush and perhaps protect those areas from grazing pressure. However, unfortunately they were moving the livestock directly into the nesting habitat of sage grouse, and the heavy livestock use was reducing the nesting success of sage grouse in these upland areas.
Without the habitat monitoring and modelling research, they were making decisions about wildlife management that were unjustified and counterproductive. There's always a continuing need to improve our understanding of the complexity of nature.