Colorado Draw Report - Elk 2025

[35WhelenAI]

Sincere question, are there non-residents that want a deer license in Wisconsin that don't get their license of choice and must resort to an OTC tag, per se? Or is it pay the $200 and whatever other accessory fees go along with that and Hunters can get a license and have the whole state with respect to public land as their hunting grounds so to speak.

I see there's a NR first time buyer license provision as well that cuts it in half to just under $100.

 

[WiscoHoundsman]

All my point with the Wisconsin price increases was to state that here locally most folks don’t want even a $20 increase to there license especially when residents is a $20 raise and non residents price is also a $20 raise.

 

[35WhelenAI]

Is that to say that non-resident Wisconsin license Revenue is not as big a part of the budget as what non-resident fees in Colorado amount to? Just trying to get a perspective on all the discussion.

 

[WiscoHoundsman]

Sincere question, are there non-residents that want a deer license in Wisconsin that don't get their license of choice and must resort to an OTC tag, per se? Or is it pay the $200 and whatever other accessory fees go along with that and Hunters can get a license and have the whole state with respect to public land as their hunting grounds so to speak.

I see there's a NR first time buyer license provision as well that cuts it in half to just under $100.

Basically the just go buy a gun or bow deer license. That gives you one buck tag good state wide and then you pick a county and based on the county chosen you get x number of doe tags good for your choice of either private or public land. You could get up to 3 doe tags in some counties others may not have any available. You can get both a gun and now license and now you have 2x buck tags and doe tags. Only preference point system we have is for bear. I don’t know how that works for NR.

Lots of NR just buy property to hunt.

 

[well_known_rokslider]

Sincere question, are there non-residents that want a deer license in Wisconsin that don't get their license of choice and must resort to an OTC tag, per se? Or is it pay the $200 and whatever other accessory fees go along with that and Hunters can get a license and have the whole state with respect to public land as their hunting grounds so to speak.

I see there's a NR first time buyer license provision as well that cuts it in half to just under $100.

2 separate licenses. One archery buck tag, one gun buck tag. Whole state, public or private. You also get some antlerless tags tacked on for free as well, quantity depending on what county you indicate you plan on hunting.

 

[WiscoHoundsman]

Is that to say that non-resident Wisconsin license Revenue is not as big a part of the budget as what non-resident fees in Colorado amount to? Just trying to get a perspective on all the discussion.

Not exactly sure but quick math with rounded numbers is as follows for deer:
R: $20 x756,000 = $15,120,00
NR: $200 x35000 = $7,000,000

I will note that Google did not have recent NR numbers as our DNR apparently does not publish them so the last report was 2017 I think.

 

[35WhelenAI]

Thanks for the math on that.

 

[alexnelon]

Is that to say that non-resident Wisconsin license Revenue is not as big a part of the budget as what non-resident fees in Colorado amount to? Just trying to get a perspective on all the discussion.

WI gets less than 35% of their tag revenue from NR.

Colorado is about 90%.

WI NR tag revenue is about $7mil, CO is closer to $60mil.

Colorado gets more money from NR elk hunters than WI gets from all their license sales combined.