BuzzH
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Dead wrong...its not that I don't care about NR hunters, just care a whole lot more about the Resident hunters in the State I live in.Nripepi,
I first want to say that I sympathize with your situation. However, you must realize that Buzz and others simply don’t care about NR preference points or NR limited quota licenses. They are confident that NR will continue to apply for lesser quality opportunities; and they are also confident that NR are willing to pay more for these lesser quality opportunities. Those are the simple facts. As for a mass boycott of Wyoming hunting by NR; good luck with that.
You are wasting your time trying to reason with them since their minds are already made up. Your only hope is to contact the various committee members and explain the situation to them. I listened to the senator’s presentation yesterday and he is basically representing his constituents (Wyoming resident hunters) with disregard to NR hunters and Wyoming Outfitters.
I did not hear the senator address the preference point issue but I think your chances are beyond slim and none that you will ever receive a preference point refund. I would hope that if this legislation passes that the WY Game and Fish or some other group would publish detailed information regarding the reality of drawing a NR license for sheep and moose in the preference point draw. There are currently 11,000 NR with preference points for sheep; at the proposed rate of 25 sheep tags per year, it will take 440 years for all of these folks to draw a tag. Most people will die before they ever draw the tag. This statement is true for both residents and non-residents. These preference points are providing over $1.5 million dollars of income per year; the senator failed to mention this income.
Basically the maximum 10% NR sheep allocation would reduce NR sheep tags from approximately 60 per year to approximately 25 per year; a 60% reduction in sheep tags. Various hunting publications have already indicated that NR applicants with less than 18 preference points are basically wasting the $150/year preference point fee for sheep since applicants with less than 18 points will most likely never draw a sheep tag in the preference point drawing. If the allocation is reduced from 25% to a maximum of 10%, the probability to draw in the preference point draw will decrease by 60%.
Just my 2 cents.
You know, like you do in the state you live in...
There's even a hierarchy of non residents I care more about...those that don't whine, complain and whimper about credit card fees, etc. I care much more about them.