Colorado Sells More Nonresident Elk Tags than all Seven Western States Combined

[cnelk]

A good read -

Colorado Sells More Nonresident Elk Tags than all Seven Western States Combined - Jurisdiction on Federally Owned Public Lands

Colorado sells more nonresident licenses than all seven western states combined.

publiclandjurisdiction.com

 

[Weldor]

No suprise there. I am sure the otc tags really help. Draw states and NR restrictions in other states. We have 10% cap down here and of course have no where near the amount of Elk. When I was younger we went quite a fews times because we could not draw in our on state and you buy over the counter in Colorado.

 

[justinspicher]

Not surprising at all, Colorado is the welfare state for elk hunting.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Time to double or triple the NR cost… I’ll wait for all the NR hate

 

[cnelk]

The conflict of interest thing is something that needs to be changed

 

[Jethro]

I didn't read the article, only looked at the data box. Data is off. 5400 WY NR elk licenses? 34% to NR in NM? Not right.

 

[wapitibob]

Time to double or triple the NR cost… I’ll wait for all the NR hate

Wyoming will sell every $2000 elk tag they can print. There’s a waiting list for $8000 nm landowner vouchers. Tag cost isn’t a barrier.

 

[wapitibob]

I didn't read the article, only looked at the data box. Data is off. 5400 WY NR elk licenses? 34% to NR in NM? Not right.

Yep, WY sells about 13,000 elk licenses/year.

 

[cmahoney]

The west is only 7 states?


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[roymunson]

doesn't colorado have more elk than itself than most of the other states combined?

 

[cnelk]

Colorado could double the cost of NonRes elk fees and they’d still sell out

 

[Jethro]

Yep, WY sells about 13,000 elk licenses/year.

I thought maybe the graph had the WY and NM numbers backwards. But 5400 NR elk license in NM with LO tags not being counted, would still be high.

 

[KHNC]

Especially since NM limits NR to 10% of the total tags, and only 4% of those go to unguided hunters.

 

[Dos Perros]

Colorado could double the cost of NonRes elk fees and they’d still sell out

How does one sell out of something that is unlimited?

 

[cnelk]

How does one sell out of something that is unlimited?

Just wait. Limited is coming.

 

[AZ_Hunter_2000]

Time to double or triple the NR cost… I’ll wait for all the NR hate

Folks will whine but the majority will still pay. Saw it when gas was higher earlier in this administration.

Junkies will always find a way to get their fix.

 

[Coveyleader]

Just another head scratcher in the world of "hey lets dump wolves off and cut our own profits".

 

[KsRancher]

That is what I really like about numbers. They never lie. But they can't be manipulated to fit any narrative.

I could write an article with a headline "Co residents dont want more elk tags" and post a graph with several units with NR caps where not enough residents thought it "wasn't worth the points" so NR got a bigger percentage than the original percentage.

Now would I agree colorado needs to do a little more for the residents. Yes, and they are doing that. They already have a cap change coming up for NR.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Just another head scratcher in the world of "hey lets dump wolves off and cut our own profits".

Not just cut profits but introduce something that takes tons of money to pay off all the livestock kills

 

[taskswap]

It also has more than double the herd size of any other state, and more than the bottom 5 combined. If you normalize the tag sales against this, it doesn't look all that crazy.

It's easy to forget how vast Western states are, too. Despite complaints of over-crowding, I've spent plenty of time on the East Coast and you could fit ALL of New England into Colorado with room left over for a lot of NY and PA. I just wrapped up a trip on a tag that covers multiple GMUs and it took almost two hours just to drive from one unit to the next. A Northeastern hunter can get from MA to NH faster than that.

These kinds of things are way more complicated than they're often made out to be. A lot of smaller rural towns here get a large chunk of their income from supporting outdoor sports, mostly hunting and fishing. And people from out of state pay way more into that pool than locals because they're more likely to a) need something they forgot, and b) be willing to eat at a local restaurant or buy that ugly keychain off the rack. I think I remember somebody at the local Murdoch's near where I go say they make half their yearly income in prime big-game season.

I wouldn't mind lower pressure any more than the next guy, but I think this stuff needs to be approached very carefully and thoughtfully.