Distribution & Growth Statistics

The following pages contain a breakdown of the Pope & Young Club’s Records Program archives. Entries in the Records Program are tallied by state/ province for each of the recognized North American big game species and are expressed as a total for each of the last ten two-year recording periods. Additionally, the total all-time sums for each state, per species, are given and arranged in descending order. Entries are shown in the recording period that the animal was harvested.

With some insight into the various factors that

Alaskan Brown Bear

can affect the number of entries, the following stats can be interpreted to reflect the present health of a specific big game species population in a specific state/province and the hunting opportunities in that state/province. Past recording period supplements contain state by state breakdowns of the entries in the archives, current to that publication, which, along with this publication, can be charted to compare long term growth for a particular state/ province as compared to others. We hope you find this information interesting and informative.