A report completed this week by Mountain Pursuit, analyzes the male only hunting competition that receives a set-aside of 80 antelope tags from the Wyoming Game & Fish Commission every year.

Earlier this month, the Wyoming Wildlife Federation betrayed resident hunters and threw in with the Wyoming Outfitter Industry to oppose SF0094, a bill which would have increased the number if big game hunting tags going to resident hunters.

On February 4, 2020, the Idaho House voted 55-15 in favor of limiting and increasing the price of nonresident big game hunting tags.  This was proposed by Idaho Fish & Game in response resident hunter’s request to reduce the overcrowding in certain hunt areas.

This week Mountain Pursuit filed a complaint against the US Forest Service in federal court over mountain biking in the Palisades and Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) in western Wyoming, and over ORV/ATV use in the Shoal Creek WSA.

A report by Mountain Pursuit, finds that 9 Western states give their governors the authority to remove commission members as they please. It investigates how each state appoints, dismisses, and distributes commission members, and what qualifications are required of them.

If Governor Gordon really wanted to demonstrate he cared about Wyoming resident hunters, he would insist the Wyoming Legislature change Wyoming's annual give-away of our valuable hunting tags to nonresidents. Wyoming is, by far, the most liberal state in the West when it comes to nonresident hunting tag allocation.

At it's July meeting, the Idaho Fish & Game Commission will decide on language that could allow the department to restrict over-the-counter (OTC) deer and elk tag sales to nonresidents.

Mountain Pursuit founder Rob Shaul, was interviewed last week in the Mountain Journal, an online publication from respected journalist Todd Wilkinson covering the challenges facing the intermountain west. 

From a wildlife management perspective, harassment of big game on their winter range has been a growing concern. Several western states including Wyoming, Colorado, and Nevada have implemented shed hunting seasonal restrictions to protect big game from harassment.

Mountain Pursuit submitted a letter to the USFS Bridger-Teton Forest Supervisor challenging exploding mountain bike activity in the Palisades Wilderness Study Area in Teton and Lincoln Counties, and mountain bike and destructive ATV/UTV activity in the Shoal Creek Wilderness Study Area in Teton and Sublette Counties.

Wyoming Game & Fish Department leadership has delayed identifying migration corridors for the Sublette Pronghorn and Wyoming Range Mule Deer herds in response to last-minute concerns raised by industry groups representing ranching, mining and oil and gas.

An in-depth report completed this week analyzing the Wyoming G&F Governor Complimentary License system identified opportunities to increase revenue from the Governor Tag sales, and immediately add up to $1 million to the Wyoming Game & Fish Department general fund.

An in-depth report analyzes a decade of Wyoming G&F Commissioner Complimentary donations uncovered serious issues in tag allocation, financial accounting, and a disturbing disregard for Wyoming wildlife, resident hunters, and taxpayers' money.