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Girls and Hunting

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According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources:

Girls are the fastest growing segment of Wisconsin’s hunting population. The number of licensed women gun deer hunters in Wisconsin is projected to increase by 50 percent to 75,000 in 20 years. As of opening day, females represented 32 percent of resident first-time license buyers and 30 percent of resident first-time junior gun deer licenses.

 

A very unscientific survey of the photos in a local Vermont newspaper celebrating youth hunting day, showed not quite one-quarter of the young hunters pictured with a deer were girls.

Read the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources page, including videos, here.

In other deer hunting news, the season tallies are starting to come in. You can find Minnesota’s here. And you can find numbers on Missouri’s season, the biggest in years, here and here. In Alabama, hunters are self-reporting on-line. Read the story from the Alabama Media Group.

Photo: Mother and daughter hunt together in Wisconsin, courtesy of the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources.

Wyoming Funding Woes

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Think your fish and wildlife department’s funding would be secure, if only hunting and fishing license sales were healthy? It seems that even excellent hunting and fishing license sales don’t guarantee a healthy budget, as the situation in Wyoming seems to show.

A Caspar Star-Tribune editorial says that tourism is Wyoming’s number two industry, and many of those tourists come to hunt and fish in the state. Still, that doesn’t prevent the state Game and Fish department from going hat-in-hand to state legislators when they need raise license fees to keep up with inflation. When Fish and Game makes an unpopular decision, the legislature just says, “no.”

That may be a problem that many state fish and wildlife departments would rather deal with than the funding problems they have now in their own states, but it does show that things are rough all over.

Read the entire editorial in the Caspar Star-Tribune, here.