Loggers, miners, livestock producers etc wouldn’t thrive if the land was private?
Yes you do. You want to control how many NRs huntin in WY.
No. I wasn’t born. Not against regulation of the resource but we already live in a time that if you have money, you have arguably better hunting opportunity, regardless what your license plate says.
No they wouldn't survive. Show me a cattle operation that pencils out in wyoming, Montana, Colorado, with land purchased at today's land prices and operating 100% on private land.
They don’t have to purchase the land, get 500 people to invest $100k and form an LOA, lease out the grass to ranchers, sell the timber to keep the forest healthy and only allow the 500 investors on their land, think $50 million would buy a chunck and as soon as millions of acres are opened up for sale land prices would tank, allowing others to buy as well.
Right because wildlife is a state asset held in trust for the citizens of the state it resides in. Same applies to your state of residence. I won't be bitching about what your state charges me to hunt there, what tag numbers you limit me too, and surely won't ask your state to sell off federal lands because of those decisions.
Like I said, Americans value public land more than divesting them to investors that want to privatize them.
I don't think that is true at all. I had 7 licenses last year and spent less than $400. I hunted all public land and didn't scratch 1% of what was available to me.
Forgive me for being an advocate for your states rights, as well as mine.
Ok, be interesting to see when it comes back around, it’s kinda like WY NR allocation reductions, that failed many times previously as well.
Since we aren’t talking about Wyoming anymore and our own states, it certainly is that way here. I mean I did get a doe tag for my backyard last year if that counts .
The right of states to manage the wildlife within its borders for the benefit of that states citizens.
It's a balance beam between opportunity in quantity or quality. Of those seven tags I had, 6 were not in the draw and I was unsucessful. The one I snagged in the draw for 11 points was successful. Just like somewhere else you said one can hunt for the cheap in WI, but with oodles of other folks.
There's more awareness, influence, and support for public lands now than anytime I've been alive.
Then you shouldn't be complaining what any state charges nrs or what kind of limitations they put on you for allocations.
Your last paragraph resonates with me and what I will look to in the future when my circumstances allow.
So I guess giving nrs 13k elk tags...about double the 7250, more than 50% of pronghorn tags, and way more than 20% of our deer tags is bad?
I get that but WY is so dependent on federal aid it would seem nonresidents have more skin in the game in WY.
Do you have stuff completely irrelevant to argue about pre typed? Makes no sense. Your telling me stuff I know like I should be thankful. And it in no way ties to the quote.
Yes but that’s still a vast minority and national debt has never been more then it is now.
