According to the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife Associated Recreation, more than 87 million Americans (or 38 percent of the United States' population age 16 and older) hunted, fished or observed wildlife in 2006. In conducting these activities, they spent $120 billion. Of these 87 million Americans, Montanans were on average most likely to hunt, Alaskans and Minnesotans were most likely to fish, and residents of Maine were most likely to observe, photograph or feed wildlife.

Read the entire Preliminary State Overview of the 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.