Then a little further down you explain that you don’t have a clue if the $170,000 contained just tag fees or loss from preference point fees also. But still claim I’m wrong.
Just an FYI, but non-resident preference points seem to bring a lot of money into WY G&F.
There were the following number of non-residents with points in 2019:
https://wgfd.wyo.gov/WGFD/media/content/PDF/Hunting/TOTAL_PREF_POINTS_EDA.pdf
https://wgfd.wyo.gov/WGFD/media/content/PDF/Hunting/TOTAL_PREF_POINTS_MS.pdf
Moose: 10,581 @ $150 per point = $1,587,150 maximum revenue per year (if everyone applied for a point)
Sheep: 10,694 @ $150 per = $1,604,100
Elk: 103,528 @ $52 per = $3,209,368
Antelope: 90,300 @ $31 per = $3,702,300
Deer: 86,887 @ $41 per point = $4,518,124
The max revenue in 2019 if everyone applied for a point is $14,621,042, but not everyone applies, right?
Check out B-14 on the Annual Report to see the table of numbers who have applied for points each of the years from 2013 - 2017 and how those are trending upwards:
Based on the 2017 data, but assuming the higher priced preference point fees ($150 for sheep and moose up from $100 and $75) is around $9.4 million in non-resident preference point fees (not counting non-resident youth fees). It might have been up to $10 million last year.
I am just guessing here, but if quotas were to be reduced to 10%, there would be significantly more than $170,000 lost in revenue from lost preference point fees. What that is is anyone's guess, but we have heard from many with upwards of 15-20+ sheep and moose points is that they are out when they draw and won't be back in. The same would likely happen for some getting deer and elk and antelope points. If I were pushing this, I think I would go for an 80/20 split to try and keep the residents happy and for the non-residents to keep paying the bills. We have heard from many on this thread about not applying in New Mexico after what they did to reduce NR-DIY to 6%, the same could definitely happen in Wyoming if they go to the full 90/10 split from where things are currently. I think most would guess the loss would be a few $million per year. Maybe not a big deal, but in the current situation the country is in and the current price of commodities (oil, gas and coal), the states must be sweating some.