Super cool @D_Walt! Good luck to him at state👍
Crazy how big high school and college fishing has become- as I’m sure you’re aware, it’s now a scholarship sport at many colleges.
Agree, that is what makes it so dumb/ it’s not like it’s a safety issue.
I’m surprised there isn’t more discussion on this- 3+ million acres is a huge amount of land.
Because it involves so many more acres. It’s really simple math if you brake it down.
3+ million acres being off limits NR DIY hunters from 49 states is a lot of land that people are paying for without equal opportunity to enjoy.
The original poster asked about threats to public land...
That is a great question. I have no idea why the residents of Wyoming continue to restrict only that particular activity to NR DIY hunters.
They must identify something about big game hunting that holds a different value than the others you’ve mentioned, you’d have to ask a resident the thought...
The Hunt Talk crew lost its collective mind over a 3.15 acre parcel near Jackson:
13 pages for 3.15 Acres?
In my opinion, the 3 million+ acres of federal Wilderness acreage being closed off to NR DIY big game hunters is materially a much larger issue.
The ire isn’t necessarily unjustified...
Neither: I am a 100% DIY hunter, not interested in guided hunts at this point in my life.
Did anyone involved in those hunts possess a resident guide license? If not, and that gentleman was a nonresident, that is highly illegal. It is very clear in the regulations.
That is not accurate. Nonresident DIY big game hunters are indeed excluded from over 3 million acres of Federal Wildeness lands, at least if they wish to hunt unguided/without an outfitter.
In Wyoming, DIY residents from out-of-state must hunt with an outfitter or resident guide (at which...
I did some quick math: if you add up every acre of the four articles you posted, the total would be about half of the federal Wilderness land that has been off-limits to DIY hunters from 49 states (since 1957).
I wonder sometimes if we are clutching our pearls over the wrong issues.