Wyoming HB0002, max nr app fee of $75

[StuckInTheEast]

The "some folks" you reference above is the state government. Take Wyoming, for instance:
$12M in 2020,
$20M in 2024.

Just on preference point fees. Easy way to make a lot of money.

Let's not forget about outfitters and guides...which I have no issue with to a degree...but way too much money and politics involved there anymore as well.
Hell it's getting bad everywhere as far as access. Everyone wants to lease every square inch. There are hunting leases under 10 acres around here...guess if someone is willing to pay it that's how it'll go.
I dont have much complaint about fees/tag expense. The available access to decent hunting areas is far more of a rub than an extra $75-150 in fees a year. That affects residents and NR alike. I'll pay the tag costs but all the land getting leased out to outfitters that play gate keeper for an extra $3-10k just to access it is what I'm getting at. Most folks can eat the tag expenses but the access expenses are getting prohibitive.
I've got nothing against good outfitters/,guides to an extent. Loved the last one we used...but there's gotta be more effort to keep walk in/privately owned public access areas open and increasing with all this revenue they are taking in.

I don't know enough about internal workings of Wyoming fish and game but as long as the funds are used for conservation and increasing public hunting opportunities I'm not sure I've got much gripe there...but the point system as a whole is a different story.

 

[Maverick1]

Let's not forget about outfitters and guides...which I have no issue with to a degree...but way too much money and politics involved there anymore as well.
Hell it's getting bad everywhere as far as access. Everyone wants to lease every square inch. There are hunting leases under 10 acres around here...guess if someone is willing to pay it that's how it'll go.
I dont have much complaint about fees/tag expense. The available access to decent hunting areas is far more of a rub than an extra $75-150 in fees a year. That affects residents and NR alike. I'll pay the tag costs but all the land getting leased out to outfitters that play gate keeper for an extra $3-10k just to access it is what I'm getting at. Most folks can eat the tag expenses but the access expenses are getting prohibitive.
I've got nothing against good outfitters/,guides to an extent. Loved the last one we used...but there's gotta be more effort to keep walk in/privately owned public access areas open and increasing with all this revenue they are taking in.

I don't know enough about internal workings of Wyoming fish and game but as long as the funds are used for conservation and increasing public hunting opportunities I'm not sure I've got much gripe there...but the point system as a whole is a different story.

It’s all just a money grab.

 

[Only_A_Little_Lost]

I think I am reading that wrong, I am reading that as 75 dollars for all my species applications? I would think it's 75 dollars per species?