Patrick Durkin: Recent study offers detailed look at Wisconsin’s falling hunter numbers

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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