90/10 Plus Would Have Meant 3,665 More Big Game Tags for Wyoming Resident Hunters in 2019
Still building points for a bighorn sheep tag? Did you put in, but fail again to draw a buck antelope tag? Still waiting to draw a limited quota bull elk tag?
Wyoming is by far the most liberal western state when it comes to nonresident hunter tag allocation. We currently give 25% of our bighorn sheep and mountain goat tags, 20% of our moose tags and 16% of our limited quota bull elk tags to nonresidents. Arizona, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado all limit nonresidents to 10% or less for most big game tags.
In 2019, Wyoming's current tag allocation cost resident hunters 3,665 coveted big game tags!
If Wyoming matched Montana's "90/10 Plus" allocation - where 90% of limited quota big game tags go to resident hunters, 10% to nonresidents, and if there are 10 or less tags for any hunt area, all of those tags go to resident hunters - Wyoming resident hunters would have received 3,665 more coveted tags:
34 more Bighorn Sheep Tags
44 more Moose Tags
14 more Mountain Goat Tags
622 more Limited Quota, Type 1 & Type 9, Elk Tags
3,011 more Limited Quota, Type 1, Antelope Tags
24 more Bison Tags
Why are Wyoming's resident hunters getting screwed? Blame your State Senator.
In February, a bill, SF0094, would have changed Wyoming's tag allocation to match Montana's 90/10 Plus model. It failed on introduction to the State Senate by a vote of 1-28. Only Sen. Larry Hicks from Carbon County, voted in favor. Every other Wyoming State Senator sided with nonresident hunters and voted against introduction.
Want to help get this changed?
First, email/call your State Senator and ask him or her directly why they voted against SF0094. Demand they support resident hunters and support 90/10 Plus in the future.
Second, visit 307hunter.com to learn more and get involved.