Economic
Benefit in Texas
•1st by
Annual Hunting Related Retail Sales:
$1.7 Billion
1st in
Number of Migratory Bird Hunters:
500,404
1st in
Retail Sales from Migratory and Upland Bird Hunting: $306,956,227
1st in
Jobs related to all Hunting Activities:
31,711
-International
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies.
Economic Importance of Hunting in America. 2002.
Ecotourism:
Wildlife Watching
One
of Texas’ largest revenue producers with over 1.2 billion dollars spent
and 3.6 million users per year (USFWS 1996).
Mad
Island Preserve located in Texas holds the nations all time largest one day
species count of 234 during the 1997 Christmas Bird Count1.
Texas
coastline is one of the most popular stops of the Great Texas Birding Trail
where travelers spend $78.52 per person per day along the Texas Coast2.
1 LeBaron,
G.S. 2000.
Summary-The One Hundredth Bird Count, December 16th 1999-January
3rd 2000.
BirdSource-Christmas Count Website, Cornell University.
5pp.
2 Eubanks,
T.L. and J.R. Stoll. 1999.
Avitourism in Texas: Two
studies of Birders in Texas and their potential support for the proposed
world birding center. Fermata
Inc., prepared for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
Austin, Texas.
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