ORIGINAL: yano
1. The total number of VA Hunters in 2008. I seem to remember seeing either a 350k or 250k number floating around somewhere, but I looked high and low and can't find a definate number.
2. What is the source of your "sportsman data" in your post on PA's and VA's numbers?
Here:
http://www.nssf.org/07report/compare.cfm
I was wrong with the resident/non-resident description. It's all solid "resident" and is total sportsman (hunting & fishing). But... you can filter it even more to look at
HUNTING money spent and number of
HUNTERS, ...i.e. not total sportsman.
The state data info, I simply grabbed off the internet (Google, wikipedia, US Census, etc..)
The deer harvest info, I grabbed of each states' hunting website (PGC, VA DGIF).
Corrected data:
Number of resident hunters in PA: 933,000
2008 deer harvest: 335,840
Money spent by hunters in PA: $1.7 billion
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Number of resident hunters in VA: 352,000
2008 deer harvest: 253,678
Money spent by hunters in VA: $529 million