SDBugler
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I don't want this thread to get into a debate about the whole SB196 issue relating to tag allocation policy, but I do have a question on how it is being implemented.
I am doing research for this year?s applications and as I was going through the youth bull elk hunts. I noticed something that has me puzzled. 6 of the 9 available youth bull elk hunts offer 25 total tags. Looking at the drawing statistics for these hunts I noticed that all 6 hunts issued only 1 tag to NR and 3 tags to outfitter pool.
According to state statue ?If the determination of the percentages in Subsection B of this section yields a fraction of five-tenths or greater, the number of licenses to be issued shall be rounded up to the next whole number?. Therefore, what is the determining factor when the percentages for multiple groups have a percentage equal to or greater than .5?
For example:
25 tags x 84% for residents = 21 tags
25 tags x 6% for non-residents = 1.5 which by statute should be rounded up to 2 tags
25 tags x 10% for outfitters = 2.5 should by statute should be rounded up to 3 tags
Now I know they can't issue 26 tags, but why did they round down every time for NR tags and round up every time for outfitter tags? Are they technically implementing this illegally by rounding down for the NR tags?
Shouldn?t the fair solution for this issue come down to the sequence of the draw? For example in the case listed above, shouldn't the NR?s be guaranteed at least 1 tag and the outfitters guaranteed at least 2 tags, then during the sequence of the draw the first of either of these two pools to exceed their base number would get the ?extra? tag and that pool would round up and the other pool would then round down?
Another one of the hunts offered 75 tags and for that hunt they issued only 4 tags to NR?s (rounded down from 4.5) and issued 8 tags to outfitters (rounded up from 7.5).
Did the NR youth hunters pool get potentially 7 less tags at the expense of the outfitters pool? This may not seem like much but when you consider that they issued only 11 total NR youth bull tags it is a big factor.
Of the total 250 available tags offered for youth hunters to harvest a bull 210 (84%) went to residents, 11 (4.4%) went to NR, and 29 (11.6%) went to outfitter pool.
Am I missing something??? Can someone clear this up for me?
Thanks.
Please note: I'm not whining or complaining, I just want to understand how the system works.
I am doing research for this year?s applications and as I was going through the youth bull elk hunts. I noticed something that has me puzzled. 6 of the 9 available youth bull elk hunts offer 25 total tags. Looking at the drawing statistics for these hunts I noticed that all 6 hunts issued only 1 tag to NR and 3 tags to outfitter pool.
According to state statue ?If the determination of the percentages in Subsection B of this section yields a fraction of five-tenths or greater, the number of licenses to be issued shall be rounded up to the next whole number?. Therefore, what is the determining factor when the percentages for multiple groups have a percentage equal to or greater than .5?
For example:
25 tags x 84% for residents = 21 tags
25 tags x 6% for non-residents = 1.5 which by statute should be rounded up to 2 tags
25 tags x 10% for outfitters = 2.5 should by statute should be rounded up to 3 tags
Now I know they can't issue 26 tags, but why did they round down every time for NR tags and round up every time for outfitter tags? Are they technically implementing this illegally by rounding down for the NR tags?
Shouldn?t the fair solution for this issue come down to the sequence of the draw? For example in the case listed above, shouldn't the NR?s be guaranteed at least 1 tag and the outfitters guaranteed at least 2 tags, then during the sequence of the draw the first of either of these two pools to exceed their base number would get the ?extra? tag and that pool would round up and the other pool would then round down?
Another one of the hunts offered 75 tags and for that hunt they issued only 4 tags to NR?s (rounded down from 4.5) and issued 8 tags to outfitters (rounded up from 7.5).
Did the NR youth hunters pool get potentially 7 less tags at the expense of the outfitters pool? This may not seem like much but when you consider that they issued only 11 total NR youth bull tags it is a big factor.
Of the total 250 available tags offered for youth hunters to harvest a bull 210 (84%) went to residents, 11 (4.4%) went to NR, and 29 (11.6%) went to outfitter pool.
Am I missing something??? Can someone clear this up for me?
Thanks.
Please note: I'm not whining or complaining, I just want to understand how the system works.