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    HUNTING LICENSE SALES + A PANDEMIC PLUS?

    Oct 15, 2021 5 minutes
    STEVE SORENSEN

    COVID-19 hit America hard. Churches stopped gathering. Funerals were limited to a handful of mourners. Banks forced us out of their lobbies and into the drive-through. We wore masks everywhere. But the pandemic did not hinder hunters from pursuing white-tailed deer in 2020. In fact, the number of hunters increased and the number of deer harvested rose in at least 37 of 44 states where whitetails are hunted.

    Will the pandemic mark a reverse in the decline of hunting license sales? Will numbers hold (or be even higher) in the 2021-2022 season? Or will the increase be a mere blip, failing to counter the downward slide of hunter numbers?

    A CABIN FEVER EPIDEMIC

    Many people were never infected, but lockdowns led to another malady — cabin fever — and social distancing took away most of the

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