Wyoming Hunting season dates and quotas.

[Buckshot85]

Wasn’t Wyoming to set and post final hunting season dates and quotas the end of April?

 

[wapitibob]

Approved as submitted I believe. Tentative info was moved to the commission page, April notebook section.

 

[Buckshot85]

I must have missed it. Thank you.

 

[Travistroop]

I thought it was May 1st but I can't find the info

 

[BuzzH]

See Wapitibob's post...its there.

 

[come2elmo]

They haven't updated the website yet but here is the link to that.

Regulations | Wyoming Game & Fish Department

April 21-22, 2026 - Commission MeetingRiverton, WY The following regulations will be presented to the Commission at their April meeting. Chapter 2, General Hunting RegulationChapter 5, Antelope Hunting SeasonsChapter 6, Deer Hunting SeasonsChapter 7, Elk Hunting Seasons

wgfd.wyo.gov

Here is the link to the google drive where they have the changes that were approved at the meeting.

2020 Hunting Seasons Notebook - Google Drive

drive.google.com

 

[come2elmo]

the public comments on the google drive are probably the best part.

 

[Mosster47]

the public comments on the google drive are probably the best part.

Wyoming residents: "We pay the least taxes in the lower 48."

Also Wyoming Residents: "WHY ARE YOU SELLING SO MANY OF OUR TAGS AT TEN TIMES THE MARK UP TO NON-RESIDENTS!?!?!?"

You can always find the ones that didn't pay attention in math class right away.

 

[wapitibob]

Updated season docs are in the Regulations section.

I read the first few Antelope comments. Obviously the Dept is doing a poor job of explaining the draw process to some residents, or some just don't care to understand. For those wondering why nr get more than 20% in the initial draw; residents draw first, with a quota of 80% of the LQ licenses. If they don't draw all of those licenses, the remainder, per hunt code, move to the nr draw where they are added to the initial 20% nr quota and re allocated special/regular. If residents want all 80%, apply for the licenses that historically undersubscribe, as a 2nd or 3rd choice.

 

[FatCampzWife]

Dang. Those comments are interesting.

 

[-bowfreak-]

These type of comments just remind me that many people don't realize that there is cost associated to EVERYTHING. No free lunch and everyone gets paid. If you don't want NRs taking "all" of your tags, be prepared for a nasty increase on your resident license and tags. Many people understand why WYGF does what they do, the vocal minority are the ones that do not.

 

[Buckshot85]

I just absolutely love Wyoming. I’m from Wisconsin. I have road out to Wyoming on my Harley to ride around and enjoy the beauty numerous times.
I have also hunted there 4 times for antelope.
I have a deer and elk trip coming up, one this year and the other next year.
I’ll pay what they ask because my hunting career is winding down and don’t know how much longer I’ll go.
The non -resident issue for locals happens everywhere. I don’t really care about it.
Thanks for the links above.

 

[BuzzH]

These type of comments just remind me that many people don't realize that there is cost associated to EVERYTHING. No free lunch and everyone gets paid. If you don't want NRs taking "all" of your tags, be prepared for a nasty increase on your resident license and tags. Many people understand why WYGF does what they do, the vocal minority are the ones that do not.

A vocal majority of NR's don't understand the issue, the impacts (or lack-there-of) to GF revenue that allocating more tags to residents would cause, etc.

 

[wapitibob]

These type of comments just remind me that many people don't realize that there is cost associated to EVERYTHING. No free lunch and everyone gets paid. If you don't want NRs taking "all" of your tags, be prepared for a nasty increase on your resident license and tags. Many people understand why WYGF does what they do, the vocal minority are the ones that do not.

There is a movement in WY to increase the resident share of E/D/A licenses, probably overdue, and that movement isn't going away and at some point it's going to happen. Under current Elk regulation and the current Elk draw structure, WY will see a revenue increase by changing E/D/A quotas to 90/10, so it's not always about the money.

 

[-bowfreak-]

How can revenue increase if you take 100 tags that sold for $800 and then change then decide to sell them for $50? I admit I know a fraction of what you know about their draw, so I'm asking how they will increase revenue.

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[wapitibob]

Nr full price Elk quota drops by 6% but Legislation still requires NR get 7,250 so the difference gets moved to the 2nd phase of the draw and issued as Special Gen licenses at $1300. They added 311 in 2019 under the current quota.
The assumption is that E/D/A leftovers would not be capped at 10%.

 

[Fatcamp]

There is a movement in WY to increase the resident share of E/D/A licenses, probably overdue, and that movement isn't going away and at some point it's going to happen. Under current Elk regulation and the current Elk draw structure, WY will see a revenue increase by changing E/D/A quotas to 90/10, so it's not always about the money.

Nr full price Elk quota drops by 6% but Legislation still requires NR get 7,250 so the difference gets moved to the 2nd phase of the draw and issued as Special Gen licenses at $1300. They added 311 in 2019 under the current quota.
The assumption is that E/D/A leftovers would not be capped at 10%.

So they will just push the nonresidents into fewer more congested units and increase the price? I'm sure they will still sell them all.

 

[sasquatch]

What is the E/D/A tags?


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[wapitibob]

Elk/Deer/Antelope

There currently isn't a proposal or legislation so nobody knows how/when/what will happen but just going to 90/10 for E/D/A won't change hunt areas nor pricing. Residents would get more LQ licenses in their initial draw, NR would get less on paper but, leftovers from the resident draw for D/E would still move to the nr draw, and after the nr draw, leftovers would be open draw as it is now. Lots of ideas have been floated on forums but again, there isn't anything official in the works that I know of, just bouncing ideas off the wall. A straight 90/10 reallocation just changes the demographics, res to nr. The same number of licenses get sold per hunt area.

 

[-bowfreak-]

Ok. I see what you are saying now. A little more complicated than I was thinking.

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