Vote scheduled to ban all hiking in PA. Game Lands for 130 DAYS per year

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10. I do not think it has to do with decrease outdoor activities.

It has to do with people having less time to spend with others. If you are working long hours for multiple employers you have reduced time to spend with families and friends. Hunting has always been a group activity done with long term friends and relatives. If you do not have time to maintain those relationships you stop participating. Thus the decline in hunting (Another factor is the since 1920 more people have lived in urban areas as opposed to rural areas. People maintain a family tradition for one or two generations, thus hunting peaked in the 1960s roughly two generations after families had left the farm. Now since the 1960s those same families are now three or four generations from the farm and thus have very few friends and relatives in such rural areas and this has lead to a decline in hunting. Just a comment that why hunting has been in declined).