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Commentary: Big-game hunting a healthy flywheel in economic engine

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Fishing, boating, birding, and hunting in the United States, each by themselves, are an economic powerhouse for the American people.
All these outdoor pursuits are enjoyed by millions over a broad range of household incomes and ages and other demographic characteristics. This is known thanks to the 2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation shepherded by economists with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Commentary: Enduring patterns: migrations and hunter harvests

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Ancient is our union with woods and waters.
We live in rhythms, circadian and seasonal, granular and in grandeur. Animal migrations are among the most fascinating of rhythmic natural phenomena, some of it well-studied. We as participants and observers of the natural world likewise respond accordingly as we have for millennia.

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Trapping is among the oldest of human skill sets; opportunities abound for newcomers

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You descend from a long line of trappers. Virtually all of us have ancestors at some point down the line who snared or trapped animals for food, for clothing, or for tools or trade.
Furbearing animals, a category of wildlife under state and federal law, today still provide a litany of opportunity and products. Moreover, trapping is a useful service to wildlife management and public health.

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Birding proves to be good for the American economy

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Some years back I put up nest boxes in my woodlot for the cavity-nesting birds. White-breasted nuthatches readily took to the boxes for raising broods, and for roosting. 
As our planet makes its autumnal tilt, a whole host of songbirds and raptors head south for warmer climes. But the woods are not vacant. The nuthatches live here year-round sharing the pinyons with mountain chickadee and juniper titmouse.

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Commentary: Creel surveys reveal loads of information for Ohio fisheries

Featured, Fishing, National Fishing, Ohio, Opinion /

It is curious how sounds evoke memories. Cicadas shrilling in the pinyon-juniper woods behind my New Mexico home transport through the decades to another May afternoon and a younger self aboard a 15-foot jon boat, a creel clerk for the Ohio Division of Wildlife.
I would spend days roving over a reservoir, conducting in-person interviews of anglers in boats and on shore, gathering information on what they caught, how far they drove, hours they spent fishing, and how many fish they kept in the creel. Catch rates and preferences were useful baseline and trend data for a sauger and white bass fishery.

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