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Outdoor Observations: Experts warn removing funding for archery, hunter-ed would contribute to nation’s mental health epidemic

Bill Parker / Michigan Outdoor News Editor

The number is growing of groups and individuals opposed to the Biden Administration’s recent announcement that it was pulling federal funding for hunter education classes and the archery in the schools program is growing.

Gun Owners of America, not surprisingly, recently issued a press release opposing the action. Forbes contributor Chris Dorsey took it a little further when he wrote an article last month entitled, “Experts warn defunding school hunting and archery programs will contribute to mental health crisis.”

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