For residents, your position hold true.
For Non-residents, I maintain they are being robbed, and there will be fewer permits.
Here is an example of why my math is not at all fuzzy. In 2006 16/28 elk units had less than 4 NR permits, and 7 of those had 0 or 1 NR permit. That is an average of 2 NR permits per unit. By inference, that means there are around 20 permits available per unit (on average). The permit allocation would have to increase an average of 50% (10 permits) for NR to get one (1). That is not going to happen in a year that just saw the age objectives increase.
The Convention will take 9 permits from these units (Three corners (2), Book Cliffs?Roadless (2), La Sal (1), Pahvant (1), Beaver (1), Monroe (1), North Cache (1) and half (4 or 5) of them will be from the NR pool. I seriously doubt we will se an increase of 10 or more permits in any one of these units, and certainly not 4 or 5 of these units!
The same ?fuzzy math? trend holds true of the 12 units with more than 4 NR permits (20-21 NR permits were taken from these units. It was easy to take 26 permits from nonresidents for this convention, but it is quite hard to get them back. Overall the permit #?s will need to increase by 260 permits spread across all 28 units (that's nearly 20% increase across the board. I don't see that happening. But happy wishing!