An investigation of factors affecting waterfowl hunting participation in Colorado

Pierce, Cynthia L.; Ringelman, James K.; Szymczak, Michael R.

doi:10.1080/10871209609359073

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“…Of these, gun season length is not a practical starting point for regulatory change in North Carolina. Our findings mirror those studies demonstrating that, for a variety of reasons, shortening season length is unpopular among hunters (Pierce et al , Cornicelli et al ). We propose that decision makers first attend to attributes least important to hunter decision making.…”

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“…Given WRC staff understandings of the North Carolina hunting culture, we did not expect that North Carolina hunters would generally prefer lower bag limits for antlered and antlerless harvests. These results support the claim that hunters tend to prefer more restrictive bag limits over shortening seasons (Pierce et al , Cornicelli et al ). This preference may work in concert with differences in hunters’ political and cultural contexts to explain our results.…”

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Explaining deer hunter preferences for regulatory changes using choice experiments

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Achieving state wildlife agency goals for white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) management may conflict with hunter traditions and desires. Optimizing deer herd management given conflicting biological and social goals means that agencies will need to better understand what trade-offs can be made. In North Carolina, USA, the harvest of deer by hunters is skewed towards males <2.5 years old and all firearm hunting seasons begin prior to the rut. Both trends can have undesirable consequences for deer populations, hunters, and deer managers. To provide better information to mitigate the potential for undesirable consequences, we modeled deer hunter choice behavior using a discrete choice experiment to identify their preferences for regulatory components and policy alternatives. Discrete choice experiments explain the choice behavior of humans via preference elicitation. We obtained the data used in our analysis after contacting 171,880 resident deer hunters by email and postcard to encourage their participation in a web-based survey. We received valid responses from 25,508 resident deer hunters. Respondents identified gun season length as the most important regulatory attribute influencing their decisions about policy, followed by bag limits. Results also suggest that North Carolina's hunters may be more willing to make trade-offs when attributes least affecting their decision making, such as season opening date and blackpowder season length, are altered by decision makers to benefit the deer herd. By employing wildlife valuation methods, such as discrete choice experiments, agencies can gain deep insights into viable trade-offs between different attributes that underpin multidimensional policies, such as deer seasons, not achieved through attitudinal measures alone. Ó 2018 The Wildlife Society.

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Explaining deer hunter preferences for regulatory changes using choice experiments

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“…Fish and Wildlife Service, 2013), yet hunter participation and behaviors can directly affect duck harvest. Previous studies have addressed the effect of regulations on duck hunter participation (Enck, Swift, & Decker, 1993;Miller & Vaske, 2003;National Flyway Council and Wildlife Management Institute, 2006;Pierce, Ringelman, & Szymczak, 1996;Ringelman, 1997). These studies, however, are limited by an intuitive disconnect between preferences or satisfactions expressed by hunters and harvest metrics.…”

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The Effects of Harvest Regulations on Behaviors of Duck Hunters

Haugen

Powell

Vrtiska

et al. 2015

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

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“…We also controlled for motor fuel costs (in dollars per million BTUs) from the Energy Information Administration (2009) as fuel costs are a constraint on demand. Importantly, personal free time plays a role in reducing hunting pursuits (Mehmood et al, 2003;Pierce, Ringelman & Szymczak, 1996). Time drains such as long commutes and work hours could discourage long drives to outdoor adventures.…”

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Whither the Love of Hunting? Explaining the Decline of a Major Form of Rural Recreation as a Consequence of the Rise of Virtual Entertainment and Urbanism

Robison

Ridenour

2012

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

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Recent journalism and scholarship have noted a years-long decline in Americans'participation in rural forms of outdoor recreation such as hunting. While some attempt has been made to understand these declines few have analyzed the causes of these changes in a theoretically rigorous empirical manner. This study addresses this issue in two empirical approaches. First, we analyze survey data on hunting and various theoretical predictors from the General Social Survey. Second, we statistically analyze changes in hunting license acquisitions at the state level for a period of several years. We empirically test the Videophilia hypothesis (Pergams & Zaradic, 2006) as one explanation positing a substitution effect involving electronic forms of indoor entertainment. We find evidence that the switch to certain kinds of electronic entertainment as well as the growth in urban living explain the decline in hunting and discuss the implications of these findings and future directions for research.

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An investigation of factors affecting waterfowl hunting participation in Colorado

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Explaining deer hunter preferences for regulatory changes using choice experiments

Explaining deer hunter preferences for regulatory changes using choice experiments

The Effects of Harvest Regulations on Behaviors of Duck Hunters

Whither the Love of Hunting? Explaining the Decline of a Major Form of Rural Recreation as a Consequence of the Rise of Virtual Entertainment and Urbanism

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