Hunting numbers decline in the USA

[L&L Knight <>]

It appears that fewer Americans live near widlife areas these days.

Regards, Laurie

http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071023/a_hunting23.art.htm

American hunter is a vanishing breed
By Oren Dorell
USA TODAY

States worry decline could cripple funding of conservancy programs

States that rely on tens of millions of dollars in hunting license fees 
annually to pay for environmental conservation are trying to boost a 
population they had never thought of protecting: the endangered 
American hunter.
The number of hunters has slid from a peak of 19.1 million in 1975 to 
12.5 million last year, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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