Demand for Resident Hunting in the Southeastern United States

Abstract

We modeled hunting demand among resident hunters in the Southeastern United States. Our model revealed that future hunting demand will likely decline in this region. Population growth in the region will increase demand, but structural change in the region's demography (e.g., "browning" and "aging"), along with declining forestland access will decrease hunting demand. The results suggested that programs encouraging younger and non-white populations to participate in hunting could mitigate a forecast hunting decline in the region. Increasing license fees, while politically risky, should increase agency revenues due to price-inelastic demand. The model developed here can be applied to understand and project hunting demand in the Southeast and adapted to other regions.

Municipality socioeconomic characteristics and the probability of occurrence of Wildlife Management Units in Mexico

“…The determinants of hunting demand include microeconomic variables such as: income, price, leisure activities associated (Poudyal et al, 2008), the socioeconomic profile of tourists, and access to the site (Floyd and Gramann, 1997) as well as, non-guided and guided tours (Scrogin and Berrens, 1999). Regional variables associated to hunting demand have also been studied showing that accommodation infrastructure, the proximity of urban areas and roads (Little and Berrens, 2008), and population growth (Poudyal et al, 2008) are significant variables. In developed countries were hunting is an important leisure activity not only specific data on demand has been proved to be important but also the regional infrastructure that provides facilities for hunters and their families to spend time on the region.…”

“…Most of the literature on economics has been oriented to hunting tourism and fishing especially in developed countries but in the last three decades wildlife tourism demand has also been studied due to the increasing revenues coming from this activity (Duffus and Dearden, 1990;Reynolds and Braithwaite, 2001). The determinants of hunting demand include microeconomic variables such as: income, price, leisure activities associated (Poudyal et al, 2008), the socioeconomic profile of tourists, and access to the site (Floyd and Gramann, 1997) as well as, non-guided and guided tours (Scrogin and Berrens, 1999). Regional variables associated to hunting demand have also been studied showing that accommodation infrastructure, the proximity of urban areas and roads (Little and Berrens, 2008), and population growth (Poudyal et al, 2008) are significant variables.…”

Understanding Peer Influence in Hunter Harvest Decisions Using Social Network Theory and Analysis

“…Deer densities often exceed state management goals because food abundance is high, winters are increasingly mild, and predator populations have declined (Côté, Rooney, Tremblay, Dussault, & Waller, 2004). Moreover, recreational hunting, as a tool for population control, is constrained by hunters' low demand for antlerless harvest, a decrease in hunter numbers, and declining hunter access (Poudyal, Cho, & Bowker, 2008;Riley et al, 2003;VerCauteren et al, 2011). In Michigan and elsewhere, a strategy widely recognized (Brown et al, 2000;Giles & Findlay, 2004) and commonly employed to address this problem is to encourage the harvest of antlerless deer.…”

Supply of Private Acreage for Recreational Deer Hunting in Georgia

“…Among the possible reasons for this decline are structural changes in population, urbanization of rural culture, land use change, and other factors (Poudyal, Cho, & Bowker, 2008), as well as a reduction in access to suitable hunting land (Mehmood, Zhang, & Armstrong, 2003;Miller & Vaske, 2003;Mozumder, Starbuck, Berrens, & Alexender, 2007). A number of states offer hunting opportunities on public lands such as Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs).…”