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I wonder how much of a hit local restaurants and hotels would take.
Going to 90-10% would probably just cause me to cross Wyoming off my list of places I'd want to even try drawing tags to. The only reason I bothered with New Mexico NR elk tag this year was that we own some property in the Unit that I drew for.
The interesting part of all of this to me is that a lot of the land in these States that residents are claiming first rights to is Federal land that all of us pay for with taxes, etc. Now if it was ONLY the State lands that everyone wanted to claim 90-10% rights to, cool...... I do have somewhat of an issue having slim chances of hunting Federal lands that we all pay for. Unless I'm mistaken and only the residents of those States are paying for Federal lands, upkeep, etc.
It's an interesting debate and I can see lots of valid views from both sides.
Going to 90-10% would probably just cause me to cross Wyoming off my list of places I'd want to even try drawing tags to. The only reason I bothered with New Mexico NR elk tag this year was that we own some property in the Unit that I drew for.
The interesting part of all of this to me is that a lot of the land in these States that residents are claiming first rights to is Federal land that all of us pay for with taxes, etc. Now if it was ONLY the State lands that everyone wanted to claim 90-10% rights to, cool...... I do have somewhat of an issue having slim chances of hunting Federal lands that we all pay for. Unless I'm mistaken and only the residents of those States are paying for Federal lands, upkeep, etc.
It's an interesting debate and I can see lots of valid views from both sides.