WHAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE?
Each day of the year sportsman contribute more than
$3 million to wildlife conservation efforts. This
amounts to more than $1.5 billion a year.
Hunters contribute more than $21 billion to the US
economy each year, supporting almost 700,000 jobs.
For every 25 hunters or fishermen, enough economic
activity is generated to create one new American job.
For every taxpayer dollar invested in wildlife
conservation, sportsmen contribute $12.
Through over 10,000 private groups and organizations
(such as Ducks Unlimited, Pheasants Forever and the
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation) sportsmen contribute
and additional $300 million each year to wildlife
conservation activities.
Federal tax revenues generated by sportsmen in one
year could pay for the combined budgets of the Fish
and Wildlife Service, Endangered Species
Appropriations, Bureau of Land Management, National
Biological Service and the National Park Service for
two years.
Federal tax revenues generated from New York
sportsmen could pay for the entire US FOrest Service
Fish and Wildlife Budget. Pennsylvania could pick up
the same tab!
Sportsmen's sales tax revenues generated in North
Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia could
pay for their entire State Parks and Recreation
Budgets.
Sportsmen's retail sales in Alabama and Georgia are
twice the amouint of those states' entire annual
production of cotton.
In Missouri, sportsmen's retail sales are 1.5 times
greater than the annual corn crop production and
Idaho's sportsmen's retail sales equal the state's
entire potato production. Comparing sportsmen's
economic impact to that of the beef industry, Utah
sportmen's retail sales are 1.5 times greater than
the state's beef production.
Sportsmen's spending surpasses the value of our
country's major seafood production stats of South
Carolina, Virginia, Louisiana and Maine by more than
three times the market's value.
Sportsmen's dollars create $60 billion in retail
sales, 1.9 million jobs, $8.7 million in state and
federal tax revenues - and this creates a $169
billion ripple effect on our nations economy.
If hunting, fishing and trapping were a corporation,
we would rank 10th on the fortune 500 List ahead of
AT&T and Philip Morris.
Sportsmen support more jobs than TWICE the number of
workers employed by WalMart, the largest Fortune 500
employer.
Jobs supported by sportsmen in Alabama outnumber the
combined employees of H.J. Heinz, General Mills and
Quaker Oats - All Fortune 500 companies.
Michigan sportsmen support more jobs than the entire
NATIONAL workforce of Chrysler.
Texas sportsmen support more jobs than Exxon - the
largest employer in the state. Tax revenues generated
by sportsmen exceed the box office total of all US
movie theaters or, better yet, the combined box
office earnings of the ALL TIME TOP TEN grossing
films.
WHAT
A STORY!!!
In 1900, less than half a million white-tailed deer
remained in the nation. Today, conservation programs
have returned the whitetail population to more than
18 million.
Habitat destruction reduced Canada goose populations
to a low of some 1,110,000 in the late 1940's. Today,
there are more than 3 times that number.
In 1907, only about 41,000 elk could be counted in
the US. Today, populations in ten western states
total approximately 800,000.
By the early 1900's, encroaching civilization and
habitat loss may have reduced the wild turkey
population to under 100,000. Today, conservation
programs have restored the population to some 4.5
million birds.
About 50 years ago, the total US population of
pronghorn was only about 12,000. Today, conservation
programs have helped increase the population to more
than one million.
Sportsmen's efforts and dollars have brought back
dozens of threatened species of American wildlife -
both game and non-game.
Sportsmen's dollars have purchased and restored
millions of axres of wetlands and valuable wildlife
habitat.
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