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Public commenters link decades-long youth decline to falling hunting-license sales, urge Saturday rifle opener
Summary
At a Pennsylvania Game Commission public comment session, hunters and sportsmengroups cited demographic declines, licensing trends and season-opening timing as drivers of lower license sales and urged policies to recruit new hunters, including keeping or expanding Saturday openers.
Speakers at a Pennsylvania Game Commission public comment session on Oct. 12 told commissioners long-term demographic shifts, not just agency management, help explain a decades-long decline in hunting-license sales and urged policies such as Saturday rifle season openers to make hunting more accessible.
Jonathan Furness, board secretary of the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen and Conservationists, pointed to Center for Rural Pennsylvania and U.S. Census data and told the commission that Pennsylvania has seen large declines in the population aged 0 to 19 and that decline helps explain falling license numbers. Furness said the state—s hunting-license peak came roughly a dozen years after the youth…
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