The Utah Governors tag went for $160,000 or so, Antelope Island $265,000.
for any critics, here is the history.
Miles Morretti, then SE DWR REgion Director and I sat in the Roadless area of the book cliffs some years ago, and we talked about CLOSING the Book Cliffs to deer hunting and the Henry Mountains. So few deer, so few bucks, terrible range conditions and many other problems.
10-12 years and millions of dollars later - GREAT work by the DWR, millions invested from auction tags and SFW members money, transplants of Bison, wild turkey, bighorn, many habitat projects, coyote control, water developments, drilling of wells and mangement of hunters and habitat, WHAT are the RESULTS
LOTS MORE DEER, BISON, WILD TURKEY, WILD SHEEP, ELK and other species. LOTS better range conditions.
management of the Book Cliffs and Henry Mountains also now produces a few hundred public permits in the BC and 40 or so public tags taht are BEST in teh WORLD on the Henry mountains, and hunters can take a GREAT buck, if they can draw a tag.
these tags have also been the backbone of the nearly $100 Million habitat restoration, coyote control, highway fencing and other activities to rebuild Utah's entire deer herds for the 97,000 general season tags. still lots to do, but progress is being made
Utah does MORE conservation for today and future wildlife than any other state, and these tags are a big part of it.
don peay