DATA SOURCES 



The information about hunters' origins and site destinations 

 was obtained from a telephone survey of licensed hunters 

 performed by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks 

 ( DFWP ) . This survey was undertaken in January and February, 

 1986. The survey involved mailing a one-page questionnaire and 

 hunting map to sampled hunters. Each hunter was asked to answer 

 as many of the hunting-related trip questions as possible. The 

 hunter was also told to expect a telephone call from DFWP. 



In the telephone interview, hunters read back their answers 

 to the questions already asked, and were then asked to respond to 

 a few additional questions. The two-page survey was more or less 

 a diary of the previous hunting season. Hunters were asked to 

 list the sites visited, species hunted, distance traveled, etc., 

 for each big game hunting trip during the fall season. This 

 survey instrument is provided in Appendix A. This survey also 

 asked information about trip expenditures, vehicle driven, and 

 hunter demographics. 



The data was coded and entered into data files under the 

 direction of the author. A total of 1,131 observations were 

 related to deer hunting. Each respondent was asked if the 

 primary purpose of the trip was to hunt big game, if the area 

 hunted was the primary place hunted, and deer was the species for 

 which the hunter selected the given hunting area. The total 

 number of main purpose (deer hunting only) single destination 

 trip observations was 1,123. Deleting observations that had 

 missing origin information and problems with measurement with the 



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