Hunting on the decline in California
By Pauline Bartolone, Capitol Public Radio
Hunting in California has been in a sharp decline for the past four decades.
About 250,000 Californians hunted deer, pigs, bear and birds last year. In 1970, there were almost 700,000 hunters.
Dan Yparraguirre, a deputy director with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife says urbanization is likely one of many causes for the decline.
Don’t forget that the liberals would love this state to be free of hunting. They would rather buy the chemically fed crap in the markets. Don’t forget though, those chemically fed animals still get killed and butchered before you see them in a pretty little package.
Also there is a lot of poaching by Vietnamese and Mexicans. I have seen it first hand. That cuts down on the harvest each year. The LEGAL harvest.
Taxpayers are on the decline as all who can leave so it would make sense those few remaining aren’t buying licenses and might not be able to afford to which makes poaching increase. Other western states don’t have this problem. Many people are choosing to grow their own food these days and this is a good trend at countering the helpless people that infest this state who think the grocery store produces food.
I don’t have a problem with that but, not sure I believe it, Tahoe’s West Shore is zone D3-5, yes you can hunt Tahoe, the tag allotment is 33,000 tags which sold out this year, I’ve never seen D3-5 tags sell out, as far as I know it’s a first…..
The decline in hunting has leveled off in the past decade and more women are hunting according to the article.
Bravo for both.