Wyoming Experiencing Rise In Number Of Women Hunting

By Tom Knighton

If you pressed people to name the manliest of pastimes, I suspect a nontrivial number would say hunting. After all, man versus nature and all that. Back in my youth, only a handful of my female peers spent much time in the woods, and I attended a school where the most popular sport was hunting. If only there had been a varsity team for it.

However, those days are long over. More and more women seem to be hitting the woods with a rifle on their shoulder, but is that just perception?

Not in Wyoming, at least.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department sold 14,770 resident licenses to females last year as well as 8,790 resident youth hunting licenses. Since 2008, the number of licenses sold to resident female hunters has gone up about 32 percent (one-day licenses do not specify gender so the number of female hunters is actually higher). The Game and Fish has several programs in the works to attract women and children into the outdoor sports, said Rebekah Fitzgerald, communications and outreach supervisor for the Game and Fish.

For women 18 and older, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department sponsors Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshops. The workshops give …Read the Rest

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