Preliminary Data Shows Americans Spent $120 Billion on Wildlife Related Recreation in 2006
Source: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

America’s passion for wildlife and the outdoors continues to be a major engine of the nation’s economy, according to preliminary survey data released today by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

In 2006, more than 87 million Americans, or 38 percent of the United States’ population age 16 and older hunted, fished or observed wildlife. They spent $120 billion that year pursuing those activities – an amount roughly equal to Americans’ total spending at all spectator sports, casinos, motion pictures, golf courses and country clubs, amusement parks and arcades combined.

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