I agree with Grouse that theres a correlation there between the two. I just don't see it turning around anytime soon, at least not in our state ,due to our cultural shift past 30 yrs or so. If you go down south, huntings still popular as a pastime among the youth; even there, though, its experienced a decline. Young people today , generally, have no interest in getting up early and goin out in the cold and sitting in the woods, because most of their Dads dont, and Grandpa-who did- is dead now.