Explaining Hunting Participation in Ohio: A Story of Changing Land Use and New Technology

摘要: Long-term per-capita participation in hunting is declining the United States, although trends vary by region and type of activity. Numerous studies have identified diverse factors affecting individuals’ likelihood participating hunting, but relatively few examined influencing involvement at a broader scale. Landscape cultural changes associated with urbanization coupled distractions entertainment technologies been implicated as negatively broad, sociocultural By examining related to Ohio license deer permit sales county-level (2007), we found that access huntable lands, agriculture–forest matrix characteristics, proliferation technologies, rurality, racial/ethnic demographics were rates. Although exurbanization drives parcelization land use change, some regions are not yet saturated technological infrastructure ...