residents hired an outfitter or hunting guide for their 

 particular Montana hunting trip, 10.8% of nonresident hunters did 

 so. It was not surprising to see that nonresidents travelled 

 much further and longer on average (468.9 miles and 10 hours) to 

 get to their hunting area than did resident hunters (36.7 miles 

 and 1.4 hours). In other areas the two groups of hunters were 

 quite similar. Both walked around 1.5 miles on their hunt, and 

 both saw an average of 3 other hunters. 



It is of interest to policy makers to determine if hunters find 

 different conditions on early and late season waterfowl hunts. 

 Table 4 shows a comparison of trip statistics and measures of 

 hunter success between hunters first trip of the year and their 

 last trip of the year. An analysis of Table 4 shows that there 

 does not appear to be a significant difference between early and 

 late season trips, at least not in regard to the variables 

 analyzed here. 



Waterfowl Hunter Expenditures 



Table 5 shows a comparison of per trip and per day expenditures 

 for resident and nonresident hunters. Due to the greater 

 distances which they must travel, and the necessity for overnight 

 lodging, nonresident hunters spent substantially more per trip 

 than did resident hunters (635.12 per trip vs. 49.35 per trip). 

 This inequality was evident in all categories of expense; 

 transportation, food and lodging and equipment. Nonresidents did 

 spend more time per trip than residents (3.29 days vs. 1.60 days) 

 and therefore the per day expense differential between residency 

 groups was somewhat smaller than the per trip differential 

 (193.05 per day for nonresidents vs. 30.84 per day for 

 residents) . 



Waterfowl Hunter Motivations and Management Preferences 



Tables 6,7 and 8 present information on the equipment used by 

 waterfowl hunters, their motivations for choosing specific areas 

 in which to hunt, and their reasons for engaging in waterfowl 

 hunting. 



How hunters perceive waterfowl management issues is of particular 

 interest to waterfowl hunting policy makers. A large portion of 

 the Montana waterfowl survey was dedicated to questioning hunters 

 about their opinions on a variety of these issues. Table 9 

 presents a detailed summary of responses to these waterfowl 

 management questions. These responses are broken down by 

 residency class. 



