Here's another fun fact...had to verify before I posted, but with a mind like a steel trap that tends to remember everything, I was right, as per usual:
"87-2-526. License for nonresident to hunt with resident sponsor or family member -- use of license revenue. (1) In addition to the nonresident licenses provided for in 87-2-505 and 87-2-510, the The department may offer for sale 500 B-10 nonresident big game combination licenses and 500 B-11 nonresident deer combination licenses. The licenses may that must be used only as provided in this section and as authorized by department rules. Sale of licenses pursuant to this section may does not affect the license quotas established in 87-2-505 and 87-2-510. The price of licenses sold under this subsection must be the same as nonresident big game combination licenses and nonresident deer combination licenses offered by general drawing pursuant to is one-half of the fee set for the equivalent license in 87-2-505 and 87-2-510. (2) A license authorized in subsection (1) may be used only by an adult nonresident family member of a resident who sponsors the license application and who meets the qualifications of subsection (3). The nonresident family member must have completed a Montana hunter safety and education course or have previously purchased a resident hunting license. A nonresident family member who receives a license pursuant to subsection (1) must be accompanied in the field by a sponsor or family member who meets the qualifications of subsection (3). (3) To qualify as a sponsor or family member who will accompany a nonresident licensed under subsection (1), a person must be a resident, as defined in 87-2-102, who is 18 years old or older and possesses a current resident hunting license and who is related to the nonresident within the second degree of kinship by blood or marriage. The second degree of kinship includes a mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, father-in-law, mother-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, stepson, and stepdaughter. The sponsor shall list on the license application the names of family members who are eligible to hunt with the nonresident hunter. (4) If the department receives more applications for licenses than the number that are available under subsection (1), the department shall conduct a drawing for the licenses. Applicants who are unsuccessful in the drawing must be entered in the general drawing for a nonresident license provided under 87-2-505 or 87-2-510, as applicable. - 16 - Authorized Print Version - HB 140 ENROLLED BILL HB0140
(5) All money received from the sale of licenses under subsection (1) must be deposited in a separate account and must be used by the department to acquire public hunting access to inaccessible public land, which may include obtaining hunting access through private land to inaccessible public land."
Still want to argue about who's paying what? You're welcome.
I don't things would change a bit, hunters both R and NR would lease the places that outfitters do now and hunting pressure on those lands would stay the same or maybe even increase. Didn't Albus claim that hunting clubs and R and NR hunters lease more than outfitters already?
