by Bob Marshall

Rampant urbanization, changed cultural values, and the new American religions of organized sports and electronic entertainment are keeping kids out of the woods. But our eroding commitment could be the fatal blow.

The lines on the graphs are grim, reading like an epitaph on a tombstone. One shows the adult population growing older; the other reveals that arrivals from the next generation are falling.

Sportsmen know these are the signs of species fighting for survival. Similar equations have clouded the future of canvasbacks and steelhead, grizzlies and bull trout.

But this report is even more troubling. This one is about us.

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