RECREATION 



The demand for out-door recreation in the nation is 

 expected to triple by the year 2000. In Montana the demand 

 is expected to increase at even a more rapid rate. 



Although current statistics are not available, even 

 those statistics we do have are impressive. For example, 

 according to the State Fish and Game Department, in I960 more 

 than 2U8,000 sportsmen — hunters and fishermen — spent h 1/2 

 million man-days in Montana pursuing their outdoor hobby. 

 They drove 20U million miles, spent 10 1/2 million dollars for 

 transportation, 12 million dollars for food, 2 1/2 million 

 dollars for lodging, 5 1/2 million dollars for hunting and 

 fishing licenses, and a million dollars more for other services. 

 Each sportsman, it is estimated, spent, on the average, $2^3. 

 These figures surely have increased by 1969. They do not 

 include sight-seers, picknickers, hikers, rock-hounds, water- 

 users, skiers, snowmobilers. 



Out-door recreation, until recently, has been considered 

 a spring, summer and fall undertaking, but with the increasing 

 interest in skiing and the development of snowmobiling, winter 

 will soon see as many people out of doors as do the other 

 seasons. 



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