Montana reducing nonresident deer tags

[Rifleman86]

Six months ago…

“Western politicians are trying to sell your public land! All you NR’s need to contact your senators!! This is DIRE!! We need help to save your hunting opportunities!”

Fast forward to now…

“We’ve mismanaged our deer herd for DECADES at the state level… NR’s are an easy politically convenient scapegoat, so we’re gonna take their tiny slice of the total tags we sell and cut it in half to say we did something.”

I’ve seen this story on repeat now for years. At some point, it will be unsustainable. I’m not sure where it ends, but I doubt it will be good for any of us, resident and NR alike.

 

[peterk123]

People might be growing but in a large portion of the state, urban sprawl is not causing a MD decline. That is quite laughable actually

It may be impacting migration patterns. Not just homes, but roads, commercial and other infrastructure. I think it's been documented, certainly in wyoming, not sure about Montana.

 

[ianpadron]

As a NR to the state, Im all for better management of the rescource. Just found the next paragraph in the article funny. The comish voted to pass changing the number of deer tags a R can hold from 8 to 3. Whoof, cleary the NR were the sole reason for MD decline.

The vast majority of the B tags are whitetail only FYI