The Outdoor Participation Report

Ohio Outdoors Podcast - Sportsmen's Empire

This week on the show we discuss the Outdoor Foundation's 2020 outdoor participation report. The report created by the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA) and is published at the end of each calendar year and looks at the total number of Americans that report participating in outdoor activities during the year. The first key finding of the report is that youth participation in outdoor activities continues to decline. This is concerning to us as the future of hunting and fishing is likely to follow the same trend. Another key finding of the report is that the percentage of women participating in outdoor activities continues to grow. Additionally, the report found that nearly half of Americans surveyed did not participate in any outdoor activities. We also discuss how many of the categories of outdoor activities that are growing in popularity are not that different from hunting and why that leads to even more importance being put on how we represent our community in order to appeal to the increasing number of people that may be finding the outdoors for the first time through the pandemic.

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