Though a dead horse topic, it is still fun to rehash ideas from our recliners.
Is there any reason taking the One-or-the-Other approach couldn't help.? You either put in for LE, or general season, but not both. Deer and elk. Make people pick now by creating a system where you lose your points if you miss 2 consecutive years of putting in. I'm guessing roughly 30,000 people would still put in for LE deer tags, but about 20% would opt to lose their low LE points and start hunting GS more regularly.
Couple that with treating all CWMU tags like LE (it ALWAYS costs you LE points to have a CWMU tag) and I think we might start to put a dent into point creep on LE units, and possibly GS units as well...
Also, I think a change needs to happen with "buying" bonus and preference points incentivizing hunting rather than banking points. If you put in for a hunt and don't draw, it costs you the current $10. But if you just "buy" a point to bank it for another year, it needs to cost more. My suggestion would be $50 per point, and then have very strict rules about turning tags in for medical or military scenarios only, and make it 60 days prior to a hunt, not 30, in fairness to the next recipient in line. 6600 residents and over 15000 NR just bought points last year. Let's turn that into the DWR's cash cow so we can cut back on the freaking any-bull, spike and cow elk hunts.!
Okay, that's enough early morning Mountain Dew Zero talk... Time to work.
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