Most of the cooperatives we work with are informal ones through the landowners. Some of them will have an actual contract that they sign, or an agreement, but most are informal in that they are handshake deals where the parties agree to follow a loose set of guidelines that are developed by the cooperative members to better manage the habitat and the wildlife there.
Where the provincial and the federal governments come into this is through making this information available to the sportsmen and women of Canada, promoting those cooperatives as a model for managing wildlife. It's less in the way of a monetary end or an oversight end, and more in the way of a promotion and teaching end from the agency side. We work throughout Canada, mostly eastern Canada. We spend more time in Ontario and Quebec than the other provinces, mostly because we're a membership-based organization and have more members in Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick than we do in western Canada.
We have a volunteer base of members who help teach, because we're an educational organization that provides information on how to manage deer and other wildlife habitat. And we work cooperatively with the Ministry of Natural Resources and other managers to work together to make sure we can improve this. Because of that more of our membership base is in Ontario than anywhere else, which helps to facilitate the movement and grow it. And just as we've seen on the United States' side, it leads to an increase in the numbers of members, which then facilitates cooperatives throughout the whitetail's range, as we work with deer more than anything else. We're starting to see that same thing on the Canadian side, starting mostly out of Ontario and to a lesser extent in Quebec.