Patrick Durkin: Recent study offers detailed look at Wisconsin’s falling hunter numbers
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More females and crossbow hunters joined Wisconsin’s deer hunting’s ranks the past decade, but those gains didn’t halt the state’s nearly 20-year decline in hunter numbers and license sales.
That’s one takeaway from a recent DNR study by the agency’s science operations staff. The team studied 18 years of license data gathered since 2005 by the agency’s high-tech ALiS licensing system. That software allows the DNR to precisely track and analyze the ages, gender, success rates, and license-buying patterns of hunters, anglers, and trappers throughout their lifetimes.
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