![]() ![]() Under the new system, instead of five nonresident tags available for this hunt there will be only two nonresident tags available. ![]() Last year this tag took 22 preference points to draw for a nonresident hunter with one of the five nonresident tags being allocated in the random draw for one lucky applicant with less than 22 points. For instance, Area-2, a very popular sheep area in Wyoming, currently has a tag quota of 20 sheep tags. First off, the amount of preference points required to draw a sheep or moose tag in Wyoming will more than double under the new system. This bill explicitly changes the nonresident tag allocations for bighorn sheep from 25% down to 10%, a net decrease of 60%, while the species of moose, Rocky Mountain goat and bison will be reduced from 20% down to 10%, a net decrease of 50%.Īs you can imagine this will have a devastating effect on the preference point system for sheep and moose in Wyoming for nonresident applicants. This bill changes the tag allocation for Wyoming’s most coveted big game tags to a 90/10 allocation for the “Wyoming Big Five” as they call it. Now for the hard part, earlier this morning Governor Mark Gordon signed House Bill 43 into Wyoming law. ![]() Sometimes that can be a tough pill to swallow for nonresident hunters who are at the full mercy of the residents of said state, particularly when those nonresidents are so heavily invested financially and emotionally into a preference point system. The residents of the state of Wyoming through their governmental representation have the full right and responsibility to regulate as they see fit, the full management of that wildlife in its entirety. Second, the wildlife inside the borders of the state of Wyoming and any other state for that matter, is the sole property of the residents of that state, period. I will do my best to be as objective as possible on the subject with as many facts as possible. If you are one of the nearly 12,000 nonresident sheep or moose applicants in the Wyoming preference point system this will probably be one of the most infuriating articles you will read this year.īefore I go any further on this subject I need to highlight two important points of clarity, first off, most of my coworkers and I are residents of Wyoming and stand to benefit from this legislation. ![]()
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