What does your state do for landowners and licenses/tags?

[Steve300xcw]

There is a balance. If we want people to be good stewards of habitat and the public's wildlife on their private lands, throwing them a carrot occasionally is nice.

Have you looked at what property is taxed at?

 

[AHayes111]

Montana has had Landowner Preference for Deer and Elk since 1973 and sets aside 15% of the permit quota for Landowners. Tags are valid Unit Wide and non transferrable.

For Elk eligibility, you need 640 contiguous acres or more with land that elk use.

For Deer eligibility you need 160 acres and needs to be primarily used for agriculture.

and we don't need to be expanding what we have.

 

[ShortMagFan]

Not exactly what you asked but I live in North Carolina and own land in Georgia and South Carolina (both 200+ acres). I have to buy full bore out of state hunting licenses to hunt my own land in both states. When I was young (and broke) I could have set myself up with a Georgia lifetime license but wasn’t smart enough…

 

[wind gypsy]

Have you looked at what property is taxed at?

I'm aware of what my property is taxed at. Not familiar with every other state.

It can get expensive in a hurry if it is not income generating and solely recreational.

 

[spike camp]

I think CO’s LO tag system is a scam.

 

[WRO]

The Montana LO bill thread sparked my wonderment.

I just assumed what CO does is pretty close to the norm.
-LO draws separately and in addition to the regular
-Transferable vouchers
-LO preference points
-Ownership requirement of 160 contiguous acres within the unit
-Application quantity increases on a tiered scale with land amount
-Restricted (private land only NOT the LO's land only->any private) and Unrestricted (hunt code wide)

Landowner Preference Program

The Landowner Preference Program was created to give landowners a preference for hunting licenses.

cpw.state.co.us

What I am learning is that doesn't seem to be the case. Now I am curious about what your state does for landowner licenses. I could look it up, and kill a day on the goggles, but I am sure many of you have answers enough to cut that down into a five-minute read.

Oregon is for deeded land only, deer are draw elk are a given with some transferable and some not.

Idaho is unit wide draw based on acreage with weird transfer langue.

Nv are unit wide based on usage.

Californias are private land only (don’t know all the details)

Nm has RO and unit wide, unit wide requires the lo to open their land to the public for hunting.


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[dgfavor]

Idaho is unit wide draw based on acreage with weird transfer langue.

I don't think there is anything vaguely weird or unclear about Idaho's landowner/landowner designation language. Signing my name on the line it is very clear it's not to be sold or marketed in any way, shape, or form. Like literally everything in life there are bad apples that will skirt or blatantly disregard the rules...and "society" will of course assume bad apples are the norm and begrudge the entirety of the group.

Personally I'd be totally fine to just have a landowner system where the landowner can purchase a elk, deer, etc tag for their own property, and only their own property, every year. If they opt to enter the general controlled hunt draws, they forfeit their landowner tag for the year. With the current system, this year I was able to put in for "premier ~1% odds" elk/deer/antelope tags then I put in for the same premier elk in the landowner, a new whitetail landowner hunt in my unit (which reportedly has no whitetails ) and a much better odds deer tag for backup. I took up 6 chances in the draws...4 premier, a mystery whitetail, and a good odds mule deer. I would have gladly just went and bought a landowner elk and deer and stayed on my own place. I whiffed on every draw but the good odds deer...and I gave that to my buddy that helped me on my ram hunt last year...so I have nothing and currently relegated to pack mule status!

I actually do quite a bit for wildlife on my place with water, fences/fence openings placements re. traffic/roadkills. I get cows and calves spending nearly whole summers on the place.