Szwampdonkey
WKR
Too bad all of those things you noted isn’t impacting the rise in human population to over 8 billion people as of now. It’s also apparently had zero impact in the astronomical shift of urbanites moving from cities to small towns and rural areas all across the US. It also doesn’t change the fact that a lower and lower percentage of the population living in small town and rural America don’t hunt.Why is South Korea paying people extra money to have children? The population of China actually decreased in 2022. That whole one child and aborting female baby thing is catching up to them. In 2000 the world population increase was 1.31%. In 2020 it was 1.05%. The amount of increase is dropping every year. Soon it will be decreasing.
It is impossible to argue there are less people living in and recreating on public lands where i grew up in SE WI than when i started hunting in the early 80s because it’s simply not true. Likewise, it’s impossible to argue there is more land available to hunt now in SE WI than in the 80s. The sprawling subdivisions with literally hundreds of homes blanketing the lands i used to hunt in my youth can attest to that. My experience is not unique urban sprawl is happening everywhere and it most definitely does not make the hunting better.
The Chines population decreasing and South Korea oddly paying people to have kids doesn’t somehow make the future of hunting in the US less grim. It’s NOT getting better it’s getting worse with every new house or strip mall being built where long ago a guy had a treestand or a blind. It’s just the way it is.