Gator when I used to hunt in Wyoming, the game dept. would pay ranchers for depredation of their crops. I hunted a ranch several times outside of Lusk, Wyoming. The rancher there would only charge 250 bucks for trespass fee for the entire deer-antelope season and to fill all tags. We would fill our buck tags and several doe tags when hunting there.
He did not have a problem with excessive depredation by game animals. The ranch next door had the Wyoming record whitetail deer killed one season. After that the rancher advertised that fact and jacked his prices up sky high and did not get the hunters the following year.
Due to the lack of hunters the rancher turned in a 50 thousand dollar depredation claim to the game dept. They denied the claim and advised him that his own greed was the result of the excessive depredation due to hunters not wanting to pay his excessive high trespass fees.
The rancher on the land we hunted, 5th. generation on that land, laughed about his neighbor and felt he got his come uppance for trying to screw over the hunters.
RELH