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Beringia

(5,621 posts) Mon Feb 11, 2019, 11:45 PM Feb 2019

Decline In Hunters Threatens How U.S. Pays For Conservation

https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-threatens-how-u-s-pays-for-conservation

A new survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows that today, only about 5 percent of Americans, 16 years old and older, actually hunt. That's half of what it was 50 years ago and the decline is expected to accelerate over the next decade.

Meanwhile other wildlife-centered activities, like birdwatching, hiking and photography, are rapidly growing, as American society and attitudes towards wildlife change.

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Decline In Hunters Threatens How U.S. Pays For Conservation (Original Post) Beringia Feb 2019 OP

Virginia's Game and Inland Fishery is fully self funded underpants Feb 2019 #1

Wow. You would think that in a country with more then 393 million civilian owned firearms, there CentralMass Feb 2019 #2

Damn good point! BigmanPigman Feb 2019 #3

I think we benefit from the irregular distribution of guns exboyfil Feb 2019 #5

Policy change could fix that. 2naSalit Feb 2019 #4

Yes, I was just going to post on that Beringia Feb 2019 #6

It's a major issue 2naSalit Feb 2019 #7

underpants

(197,168 posts)

1. Virginia's Game and Inland Fishery is fully self funded

Reply to Beringia (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2019, 11:49 PM

Feb 2019

No money out of the general fund

CentralMass

(16,994 posts)

2. Wow. You would think that in a country with more then 393 million civilian owned firearms, there

Reply to Beringia (Original post)

Mon Feb 11, 2019, 11:50 PM

Feb 2019

would be more hunters.

BigmanPigman

(55,521 posts)

3. Damn good point!

Reply to CentralMass (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 12:06 AM

Feb 2019

exboyfil

(18,371 posts)

5. I think we benefit from the irregular distribution of guns

Reply to CentralMass (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 12:10 AM

Feb 2019

Probably better for a person to have 10 guns than ten people have 1 gun each.

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

4. Policy change could fix that.

Reply to Beringia (Original post)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 12:09 AM

Feb 2019

Many conservation groups have, for years, made proposals to shift the funding so that they can participate in the agency policies like hunters get to. But noooo, can't do that, then they would be able to actually do something significant in the way of conserving nature rather than exploiting it all the time and only allowing the exploiters to have a say in policy matters.

Beringia

(5,621 posts)

6. Yes, I was just going to post on that

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 12:12 AM

Feb 2019

I went to DNR (hunters) meetings in Madison Wisconsin in 2006 and 2007. Two citizens made proposals to have a fee for general public so they can have more say in management of wildlife and the resolutions failed.

2naSalit

(103,806 posts)

7. It's a major issue

Reply to Beringia (Reply #6)

Tue Feb 12, 2019, 07:03 AM

Feb 2019

here in the Rockies.

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