Recent content by Utahlefty

Ya, the continental divide of questions!

Wyoming F&G has a tab on their website that lists all the gov and comm tags, which org has them, contact info, how sold, etc. https://wgfapps.wyo.gov/commlicenses/commissionlicense.aspx?year=2024 you have to know its there, but WY is pretty transparent about where they go and what they sell...

according to the onlinehuntingauctions TOS, the admin fee is only $250 added on to the sale price. This is true whether a WY group sells in as part of something like the Expo or sells it as a standalone action (which a lot of the smaller groups do). Again using WY as an example, most of the...

the commissioner's tag I purchased this year from the WYldlife Fund funded all three of their kids camps for 2024 so I feel pretty good about it. ;)

a winch would be tops on my list. later seasons, chains and hand heaters are nice as is a sled designed to be towed otherwise a gun boot and saddle bags with some repair equip, real rope and tiedowns

the inflation on the commissioner's tags is more than the governor's tags for sure. last year the governor's tags avg $54K, this year $56K last year the comm tags avg $28K, this year so far it's $39K last year there were 72 of them, this year I think 56 so we may not be seeing them go for the...

I don't disagree, but this is true everywhere, not just in Utah. Have you checked deer and antelope numbers in WY,CO,NV or AZ recently? They've cratered EVERYWHERE. All the states are taking different approaches and nothing is working. I don't pretend to have an answer for you. Elk are...

I haven't been on the RAC for a while now but I've voted to approve these lists in the past though, so that's a fair criticism you can make of me. At least the list is transparent and broken down by individual habit project and one can, presumably, go to that spot and assess for one's self...

prior years links: https://wildlife.utah.gov/conservation-permits.html

this may be the report you're looking for: https://wildlife.utah.gov/pdf/bg/conservation_permit_report_2022.pdf

hunting fool keeps a state by state tally on conservation tags here: https://www.huntinfool.com/resources/statewide-permits Utah - 362 tags All the rest of North America - 340 tags we're winning, right ??

my understanding of the outfitting industry is that (for both hunting and rafting) a company buys a permit from the .gov that specifies a hard cap on the number of user-days. and these are 6-7 figure permits depending on the quality of the area. don't sell all your user days? money down the...

from as little as $4 per person up to $100 per person (grand canyon). I'd say the average is $20 per person for most rivers with a lottery draw

three different outfitters (that break it down in the contract), I'm sure others just roll it into the total. FWIW, every permitted river trip I've been on, commercial or private, has also had a "user fee" surcharge per person that adds up to a couple hundred bucks per permit

looking back to prior hunt contracts, it appears to be 3% of the total hunt cost, which for me has ranged from $255 to $426 per hunt, dependent on hunt length