24—Lancaster Farming,
Saturday. September 7,1961
Pa. Still No. 1
Hunting State
Anyone having the slightest
doubt about Pennsylvania’s un
challenged position as the No. I
hunting state in the nation
should take a good look at the
U S Interior Department’s Bu
reau of Sport Fisheries and Wild
life recent report on hunting li
cense sales for fiscal year 1967.
, Actually, the license sale fig
ures in this report embrace
Pennsylvania’s 1966 67 license
year. The 1967-68 license year
will end August 31 and final
compilation will be completed
socn.
But Game Commission offi
cials. although elated that the
federal buieau again supports
Pennsylvania’s claim to being
the top hunting state, wain that
storm clouds already on the hori
zon could wash away many ad
vances already made by hunters
in the Commonwealth
The federal report breaks
down hunting license sales into
five categories Pennsylvania led
by a wide margin m three of
these, and was just barely edged
out of first place in the other
two, because separate licenses,
permits and tags are not requir
ed for the various species in
Pennsylvania, as contrasted to
numerous other States
There were more paid hunt
ing license holders in Pennsyl
vania than any other state, the
Keystone State led the nation in
total sales of hunting licenses,
and Pennsylvania’s income from
the sale of hunting licenses was
greater than any other state’s
In 1967 there were 995,190
paid hunting license holdeis in
Pennsylvania, an meiease of al
most 40,000 over 1966 (A paid
license holder is one individual
regardless of the number of li
censes he may pm chase ) Total
license sales in Pennsylvania
came to 1467,776. an increase
cl almost 173 000 ovei the pi evi
ous y eai Pennsy Ivania’s total in
come from the sale of these li
censes was $6,219 112 05
In commenting on the federal
report Game Commission Exe
cutive Duectoi Glenn L. Bovvers
said. “Pennsylvania ofteis sports
men some of the best diveisified
hunting lecreation in America,
and we intend to keep it that
way if at all possible
“But despite the growing im
portance of hunting, both in the
economy of the state and as a
wholesome outdooi lecieation
theie aie foices at vvoik which
could very well nun om pio
gram and wipe out many of the
vast studes made m conserva
tion over the past few decades ”
Bowers said. “Hunting is big
business in Pennsylvania We are
number one, and ovei the yeais
our spoi tsmen have paid the bill
to bring about oui top ranking
But if the pioponents of strict
gun conti ol are permitted to
succeed in their efforts, theie
will be a definite destruction of
interest in hunting as a sport
Unrealistic and umeasonable
gun conti ol measmes now being
advocated in some quaiteis will
only serve to diminish active pai
ticipation in hunting by sports
men who will refuse to submit
to furthei legimentation envis
icned by anti-gun foices ”
Bovveis concluded, ‘Diminish
ed intei est and participation in
hunting could well wreck our
caiefLilly constiucted conserva
tion foundation”
American Expression
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sign the Declaiation of Indepen
dence This act made the use of
“John Hancock”, meaning sig
natiue an evpiession in Amer-
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