elks96
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Yeah the big difference, land owners can’t sell or transfer tags. You are comparing apples to oranges again…If Wyo truly wants to follow suit with other neighboring state's quotas they may want to re-evaluate the landowner tag quotas and process.
How many Wyo res are aware of how many landowner tags were issued for high demand limited elk, deer, and antelope units in 2021?
There were actually 1,328 elk, 751 deer, and 1,103 antelope type 1, 2, 4 or 9 tags issued in 2021.
What % of the total res and nonres tags do these landowner tags represent?????
There are actually more limited nonres elk landowner tags issued than public draw nonres tags issued in many of the reg/special draws.
If Wyo res are smart and want more opportunity they may want to figure out a strategy to cap landowner tag quotas?
1) Landowner tags are taken off the top.
1) There is no set quota on high demand limited unit landowner tags issued.
2) There isn't a drawing for landowner tags with a fixed cap on the % of landowner tags available.
Possibly consider Colorado's landowner quotas as reference? 10% of limited tags in units West of I25 and 15% of limited tags in units E of I25 are issued in the public drawing to landowners.
Wyo is way more generous to landowners than Colo. In fact, most Wyo limited elk and deer units offer 30%+ of the total limited tags to landowners. I understand that landowner should be given preference for a proportion of these tags...but?
And maybe just maybe WY wants to do its own thing and not be like other states?