Percentage of Oregonians with a hunting license

[troutdude]

#22. Oregon​

- Percent of residents with paid hunting licenses: 7.8%
- Total paid hunting license holders: 326,663
- Total hunting license, tags, permits and stamps: 1,289,774
- Gross cost of all hunting licenses: $28,221,918
As Oregon becomes an increasingly more popular place to live, its wildlife areas are starting to feel the effects of overcrowding. To combat this, Oregon’s public lands increased its costs for visitors, writes Salem Statesman Journal. This includes hunting and fishing licenses, as well as tags. It’s part of a six-year strategy to slowly increase the cost of licenses, due to a $32 million shortcoming in the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife in 2014.

Source: https://stacker.com/stories/4268/states-most-registered-hunters

P.S. Wonder what our percentage is, and how it ranks, for angling licenses?

 

[Irishrover]

Good post TD! Thanks for bring this up.


In the last biennium ODF&Ws share of the Pittman Robertsons excise tax was $44,000,000. What ODF&W might want to try is to increase the opportunity for Oregonians to hunt and fish. Many folks I know were unable to draw a deer or elk tag. One wonders why they would even bother buying a license when to opportunity to use it have dwindled. Other states like New York, and Pennsylvania, have deer populations that number over a million. Texas is over 5 million. Oregon's deer population (including those that feed on my orchard and garden) is ruffly 500,000.

https://wildlifeinformer.com/deer-population-by-state/#:~:text=Deer population in 50 U.S. states , none 45 more rows

ODF&W needs to think outside the box. This is the same story they gave last time they increased rated on tags and licenses.
I have made a few trips to Salem to speak to the commission. It seems words spoken by citizens at these meetings fall on deaf ears, you can see it in their eyes while you speak. Other states are out there to emulate and model their approaches. In Pennsylvania hunters are allowed 6 tags a year, compare that to Oregon and one has to wonder.

https://lancasteronline.com/sports/outdoors/leftover-doe-tags-go-on-sale-monday-tell-us-what-you-think-of-the-new/article_bd54e436-1273-11ec-8424-8b71ac4a3181.html#:~:text=For this year, the Pennsylvania Game Commission eliminated,licenses a hunter can hold at one time.

 

[DonF]

I have lived in Antelope 32+ yrs now and have seen big game and bird hunting ssimply all but go away. haven't found any birds to speak of here in years! Don't see many deer or elk anymore and almost so antelope.