Conservation Plates or Access Yes?

elks96

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So I have been considering buying the plates, but I wanted to know how useful they are? Where the money goes?

Also can you customize them?

Last year, I chose to simply donate straight to ACCESS YES and do normal plates. I have A Truck, Blazer and Jeep I would consider the plates for, but feel that donating money directly to ACCESS YES might be a better use of funds? Any thoughts?
 
The plates are a very good thing. Cost is $180, then $50 each year to renew. Of the initial $180, $30 goes to WYDOT, $150 to Wildlife conservation related to roads and migrations (under/over passes, signs, fences, etc.) The $50 renewal goes to the same. I don't believe you can customize. They are issued in numerical order. We have switched all our work trucks to the conservation plates. 25 Light vehicles in total.

Access Yes is also a great use of money, but does something very different from the plates. The first license I buy each year gets a $50 AY donation. Do the same for the wife's and kids. I don't use Access Yes land much, if ever, but I figure the more land people have to hunt the less likely I am to run into them on the public land I typically hunt.

If you can swing it, try both. If not then both are good programs just with a different focus.
 
The plates are a very good thing. Cost is $180, then $50 each year to renew. Of the initial $180, $30 goes to WYDOT, $150 to Wildlife conservation related to roads and migrations (under/over passes, signs, fences, etc.) The $50 renewal goes to the same. I don't believe you can customize. They are issued in numerical order. We have switched all our work trucks to the conservation plates. 25 Light vehicles in total.

Access Yes is also a great use of money, but does something very different from the plates. The first license I buy each year gets a $50 AY donation. Do the same for the wife's and kids. I don't use Access Yes land much, if ever, but I figure the more land people have to hunt the less likely I am to run into them on the public land I typically hunt.

If you can swing it, try both. If not then both are good programs just with a different focus.
So the conservation plates are normal cost of registration plus the inital 180 and an additional 50 every year?
 

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