Well, I'm looking at it from two different perspectives:

1.)Why do some states just have SO MANY hunters? I looked it over, and most of the states with gross hunter overpopulation - they're all highly populated areas that areloaded with public hunting areas. Odds are, that's where/how most guys got started. Cheap and easy entertainment.

2.) Despite the number of hunters actually dwindling, how is the pressure in some areas actually increasing? Deer horders sucking up large tracts of prime hunting land, property that's closed to all hunting, suburban sprawl, economic growth. Pike County would be the most obvious and extreme example. Lots of other places with similar problems, in a lesser degree.

It's very consistent, actually.One is the initial cause of the high hunter population. The other is the reason that the problem can't seem to correct itself (and is actually getting worse).