That's a poor interpretation. WY should absolutely have preference, i'd would argue for that. I've never felt like NR deserved a bigger slice of that pie or advocated for it. I've always kind of just thought "good for those guys" with your Region G and H OTC tags and NR having to wait a long time. If you're not advocating for drastically cutting NR tags where they are already less than 10% of hunters in a Resident gen tag hunt I'm not even calling you selfish. But it was suggested in this thread they cut the region G NR tag #'s by 83% for what (based on my interpretation of 2022 #s) would only reduce total hunters in G by 7% and totally eff all those people who've already got 10 years invested while the hunters who already had it better than everyone else give up nothing. Yeah, that is selfish! If it takes 10 years now, how many does it take with 83% fewer tags?
Thanks for the good example with UT. What happens when they reduce mule deer tags in a permit area in UT? They reduce R and NR tag allotment by the same %. Not, "oh times are tough, you get an 83% haircut after waiting for a decade. Me? ha, I go every year and give up nothing". What's it take a UT resident to draw something a NR draws with 19 points, 12-14 points? Not in the same ballpark as proposed cut of NR G tags while R stays OTC.
I live in MN, hunt in a bunch of states.