Hello all;

State residents who watched birds in 2001 16 years of age or over.
Washington 36%. This is one statistic of many which can be found in the 2001
National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, March, 2003. 75 pp. State of Washington.
This is one booklet of five based on the 2001 Survey which is based on the
interview with 80,000 households with later more intense four quarterly
interviews. All five booklets had a total of 295 pages of statistics to plow
through. As did the U.S. Statistics Administration, Bureau of Census, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. National Marine Fisheries. Takes in sport
fishing, hunting and wildlife watching, also bird watching. .
Rather than go into a long treatise on all of this, contact
http://federal.fws.gov Read it for yourselves. I think it may open some
eyes, especially since birders nationwide expended $32 billion in 2001. In
essence; nationwide there were 46 million birders who spent $32 BILLION,
which constituted $85 BILLION in overall economic output and paid $13 BILLION
in state and federal income taxes and created 863,406 JOBS. Nuff said.

Gene Kridler
Old (84) Retired Broken Down Biologist and Administrator
Squirm-er-Sequim, WA






























Ian Paulsen wrote:

> HI:
> In today's Seattle Times there is an article: a field guide to birder
> northwesticus by Sherry Stripling (page C 1). One fact from the article I
> have a hard time believing that: "where more than 1 in 3 Washington
> residents takes bird-watching seriously-the fourth-highest participation
> rate in the nation." any comments?
>
> --
> Ian Paulsen
> Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
> A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
> "Rallidae all the way!"