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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		As WI Loses Hunters, It Loses Wildlife Management Funding
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:04:51
	Publish Date:		2019-04-08 05:00:00
	Description:		As our state loses numbers of hunters, it also loses the license revenue that funds wildlife management. This is the topic the Masked Biologist tackles in this week’s Wildlife Matters . When I took firearms safety 35 years ago, we were taught a statistic that was still accurate when I became a hunter education instructor twenty years ago. About 10-12% of Americans were hunters, and about the same number, 10-12%, were anti-hunters. The remaining 75-80% of Americans were in the middle, not really hunters but not necessarily opposed to hunting. Today, almost two decades into the 21 st century, that is no longer the case. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently released the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. It is a comprehensive report, almost 150 pages of facts, figures, and tables of data about natural resource use by consumptive and non-consumptive users. Within the pages of that report is revealed that today, only about 5% of Americans
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