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.
Look, we can argue until the cows come home about who did what- it doesn’t really matter. The SC declining to hear that case was one of the biggest wins for public land hunters of DT’s entire second term. Net acres of public land open to hunting have likely increased quite a bit in the past few...
Could be, agree. Like I said earlier- there are headwinds to be sure, but I do feel at times that the threat is magnified to whip people up.
Paradoxically, the DT-selected Supreme Court’s refusal to take up the Wyoming Corner Crossing case could be credited for opening up access to a few...
By definition of the word, that is not necessarily true.
Where do you feel this current term will end up in terms of percentage lost? I would guess (and hope) low single-digits.