ALABAMA HUNTING & FISHING ALMANAC IMPROVES HUNTING

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Almanac moonrise-moonset times can make you a better hunter.

The Hunting Heritage Foundation is happy to announce the publication and distribution of the 2019-2020 8th Edition Alabama Hunting & Fishing Almanac.  15,000 copies of the Almanac were published, and H. T. Hackney Co. and Alabama Farmers Cooperative have distributed the Almanac to over 500 retail outlets across the state for free giveaway to customers.

Partnership at work
With the help of H. T. Hackney Co. and Alabama Farmers Cooperative, we are pleased to be able to provide this ready-reference hunting and fishing guide to retailers to give to their customers free. This partnership results in getting the Almanac in the hands of rank and file hunters and fishermen through hundreds of stores at the local level.
How to Use the Almanac
The moonrise-moonset times in the Almanac can be used to determine the best times to hunt deer. According to Tom Hayes, who wrote the book How to Hunt the Whitetail Deer, “Except for a brief early-morning and late-evening feeding period, the whitetail normally gets up with the moon and lies down with the moon.”
Hayes continues,” Though hunting is generally poorest at the time of the full moon and is generally best when the night is totally dark, at all times—during favorable weather—when the moon rises during the daylight hours the days will be above average for hunting while at those times when the moon rises during the hours of darkness hunting will produce below average results.”

The Almanac, in its eighth year of publication, is a 32-page, calendar-based guide to hunting and fishing seasons and regulations. The user-friendly text has proven popular with all kinds of hunters, the avid and not-so-avid. Every hunter counts the same in paying for management and protection of wildlife resources enjoyed by all of society. This is why it is so important to keep the base of hunters broad.

The corporate citizenship displayed by H. T. Hackney Co., Alabama Farmers Cooperative, and other partners is a real asset. Keeping people hunting and fishing not only pays for putting Conservation Enforcement Officers and Biologists on the ground and in the water, but it drives a huge economic engine.
Hunting amounts to a $1.8 billion economic impact annually in Alabama. Freshwater fishing adds another $780 million. The two activities are responsible for $1.7 billion in direct retail expenditures, spinning off $155 million in state and local taxes every year in Alabama.