Sep 05 2007
No Hunters?
Where are all the hunters? I just read an article on CNN online that said, “New figures from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show that the number of hunters 16 and older declined by 10 percent between 1996 and 2006 — from 14 million to about 12.5 million. The drop was most acute in New England, the Rocky Mountains, and the Pacific states, which lost 400,000 hunters in that span.”
Why are fewer people hunting? Is it the time that hunting involves takes away from their family life? Is it because they have to work at their jobs so much just to pay the mortgage and put expensive fuel in their cars?
One Response to “No Hunters?”
Wow! I had no idea that the numbers of hunters was diminishing! I think it might be a change in life-style. People used to hunt because they really needed the food on the table. Then it turned into a sport. May todays young people are more interested in today’s sports than the sport of hunting.
I was on Lynn’s blog and just learned that she has only been blogging for two months. I had no idea. It seems like we’ve been talking to each other longer than two months.
I asked her last week if she was going to Las Vegas for the postie deal. She said that she wasn’t but that you were. I think Robyn mentioned that you will be in our crowd. It will be fun to meet you.
I find the information for genealogy on familysearch.com. There is also ancestral file and many others. Family search is free! Ancestral file has a fee, but I don’t think it’s very much. They give a free two week trial every so often, and when they do, I get on and use them. I never know when this is going to be, but Robyn does, and she lets me know.