I had to call you out, but a small dollar increase isn't crap. For a family of 5, if everyone hunts and gets 3 tags a years that would be about 40 extra dollars a year in tag fees (very rough estimate at a 2% increase). Lets face it that's less than half of the family of 5's grocery bill. Not to mention all the lean meat that is around 4 dollars a pound the family will bring home. Or look at it this way a video game costs 40 dollars, don't buy it for a kid and instead take them hunting. I wish they would double the price of resident tags. Look at it this way. In Idaho I buy a sportmans pack, which allows me to hunt and fish about anything in the state for around 125 bucks. Thats letting me do everything I enjoy for 365 days. That's less than 3 dollars a day. If I go to a fancy ski resort or fancy golf course I am look at easily over a hundred dollars for a day of enjoyment myself. If I were to balance that out for a year every day then that's 36,500 dollars. Yes I know you wouldn't do that everyday, but I am just showing that as far as license and tags go for a hobby, Idaho is dirt cheap for residents. Also maybe if tags were double you would see less people hunting. Which would weed out a few people who don't value hunting enough to pay the added increase. Less people hunting would equate to less people crowding into the hills (better hunt experience), decreased animal harvest (better hunt experience). Idaho has pretty much the cheapest resident tags in the western states. I understand that some people want to just fill the freezer, and that's understandable. To counter that argument, most people drive at least an hour to get to their hunting spots in a truck. Say you take 5 trips to harvest your cow elk. That's at least quadruple that amount of money you spent on gas versus what the tag costs you. I don't make very much money at all, but I am willing to pay for something that I love.
If we raised the price of resident CH elk tags to $300 (more in line with UT resident tags), that would help our odd at those tags too!
