Minnesota scrambles to rekindle hunting, fishing, outdoors participation

The writing is on the wall, and it’s not pretty.

Unless Minnesota reverses well-established declines in hunting and fishing participation among young people, license sales will crash and endanger the state’s priceless outdoors identity.

The worst-case scenario — at the forefront of next weekend’s statewide Angler and Hunter Recruitment and Retention Summit — is that fishing and hunting fade so badly that those two historic institutions lose sway with policymakers.

http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-scrambles-to-rekindle-hunting-fishing-outdoors-participation/390808941/