GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ)- The State of Wisconsin is preparing for an economic boom.
Over 600,000 hunters will take to the woods over the next nine days, but their efforts are doing more than putting heads on walls and meat in freezers.
“The 80 percent that are not deer hunters are still benefiting from the revenue that is generated allows conservation work to happen on the landscape.”
DNR Program Manager Jeff Pritzl says revenue comes from license fees, while hunters spending money out of pocket during the season, and from hunters helping with population control.
Money raised from license fees allows the DNR to keep up on conservation work.
The year round efforts are looking bright.
“It is estimated that we are acquring 2.5 billion dollars a year from all hunting.”
Pritzl added that the gun deer season makes up about half of the hunting licenses sold each year.
Deer population is also a factor. Pritzl says having a deer population that is not balanced leads to negative impacts on agriculture, forest and car deer crashes, all bad for the economic picture.
The DNR is estimating by the end of the 9 days, over 300,000 deer will be killed.
Over 600,000 hunters are expected to hit the woods starting this weekend.
