{"id":3456,"date":"2014-12-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/hunter-behavior-planning-for-the-future-of-wildlife-funding\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T14:14:52","slug":"hunter-behavior-planning-for-the-future-of-wildlife-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/2014\/12\/17\/hunter-behavior-planning-for-the-future-of-wildlife-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter behavior: planning for the future of wildlife funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by&nbsp;Rob Schorr, CNHP zoologist<\/p>\n<p>As in Colorado, income from elk and deer hunting drives the economy of wildlife management in the state of Montana. &nbsp;Rob Schorr and co-authors Dr. Paul Lukacs (University of Montana) and Justin Gude (Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks) analyzed Montana elk and deer hunter data from 2002-2011 to understand what factors influence hunter behavior and the funding that comes from license sales.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6040\" src=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/hunting_C.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/hunting_C.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/hunting_C-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/hunting_C-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2018\/11\/hunting_C-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">Rob Schorr elk hunting in Colorado<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>They determined that gender, residency, age, license price, and cohort behaviors influence retention and recruitment of individuals into the hunting population. &nbsp; Millennial hunters grew in numbers but their recruitment decreased rapidly with age. &nbsp;Baby Boomers were the largest contingency of the hunting population and had the highest retention rates, but as this group ages it is waning from the population. &nbsp;Increases in license price decreased hunter retention and recruitment slightly. &nbsp;Hunting populations were growing or stable until 2006, but hunting recruitment decreased by 50% from 2002 to 2011 leading to decreasing hunter populations in Montana. &nbsp;The $50 million that comes from elk and deer hunting annually accounts for more than 60% of Montana Fish Wildlife Park\u2019s revenue, but as hunter populations decline funding structures for management of game and non-game species will need to be altered.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by&nbsp;Rob Schorr, CNHP zoologist As in Colorado, income from elk and deer hunting drives the economy of wildlife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-friends-and-partners","category-zoology","entry","override"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cnhp.colostate.edu\/cnhpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}