bulldawg10
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Why? If you eliminate Unit wide you lose access to almost 600,000 acres of Private land that is currently available to the public, and who knows how much access to public lands by way of unit wide ranches and properties. In the draw, NM residents do get approximately 90/10 split already (of draw tags). Non-residents can't draw a cow or WMAs. When you put that back into the equation, residents are already getting about 90% of the draw opportunities.I think this sounds fair. Keep the outfitter tags in the draw so anyone can draw them. I'd like to see it a straight 90/10 split with the rules above.
And why would you want to limit non-resident land owners too? You eliminate any incentive for them to come into the state, their focus is almost certainly on elk, and they are going to do many habitat improvement to be able to get elk tags. Which benefits every elk hunter, and hunters of any species that use that landowner created resource.
I bet the vast majority of non-resident land owners are doing more for elk and elk hunting than the vast majority of New Mexicans that are just entering the draw and contribute nothing else.