Recent content by Teepee

If memory serves me correctly, the preference point system in Wyoming was originally set up such that 100 percent of the tags went to maximum PP holders. After a few years, it was changed to the current 75/25 process. Wouldn't seem like a big leap, given the change in parameters (# of sheep &...

Money for Wyoming must not be the issue. The same Wildlife task force Senator that co-sponsored the NR fee increase bill also sponsored a bill to give $5.5 million or so of Wyoming money to southern states to help build a border wall and transport migrants. Maybe Wyo should start looking at...

With 13 pts, you may want to take a hard look at 45 instead of 38.

About a 55% increase for NR special elk. Damn. Glad I'm a resident. I think that they're leaving the "regular" NR licenses alone though. Catering to the rich NR for the outfitters.

Are you taking horses, or going on foot? If on horses, take a couple of pack horses with you when you leave camp in morning and get the elk out ASAP. Most of the people that I'm aware of that have had trouble with grizzlies is when they go back the next day to retrieve the elk. Been on a...

deja vu all over again.....now there are new charges for previous year.... https://wyofile.com/hunters-face-new-corner-crossing-trespass-charges%ef%bf%bc/

https://wyofile.com/corner-crossing-jury-empaneled-opening-arguments-delivered/

From website: If you wish to provide thoughts or input to the taskforce, please complete the form below. Any comments on this form will be provided to the group. Comments received by 5 p.m. MST on April 21, 2022 will be provided to the Taskforce for the April 28, 2022 meeting. Link for...

Are you saying that the Wyoming G&F should have anticipated a 50+% drop moose & sheep numbers compared to when the preference point system was implemented? At the time, the chief wildlife biologist for G&F (Harry Harju) told me that the preference point system wouldn't work because Wy would...

Sorry, Couldn't help myself.

Animals get bigger the further north you go. So, I would think that wolves are (somewhat) bigger in Canada. Look at body weight of Texas whitetail vs Alberta whitetail. "Bergmann's rule is an ecogeographical rule that states that within a broadly distributed taxonomic clade, populations and...

Go to bill link above & open fiscal note tab. No discussion of potential loss from hunters dropping out of the system. license revenue loss: Source of revenue (decrease): Decrease in annual nonresident license revenue for the licenses that will be made available to residents at a lower...

House Bill 43 passed the House and is now in the Senate. https://wyoleg.gov/Legislation/2022/HB0043 Beginning July 1, 2027, the commission shall reserve ninety percent (90%) of the bighorn sheep, wild bison, moose, mountain goat and grizzly bear licenses to be issued in any one (1) year for...

I'm fully aware that residents don't have a pref pt for E/D/A and the non-res do. The task force is seriously talking of changing the pref pt to bonus pt for moose & sheep. I heard no talk of differentiating res from non-res in those discussions. The focus was on the resident draw, but they...

If the Wyo G&F decides to go to a weighted bonus point system in lieu of the current preference point system, would that enter into your thought process in deciding what to do? Just a thought. Most of the task force discussion has centered around changing the current system for residents. I'm...