Billings Gazette Article

[El Jason]

Montana's New Game-Changer: House Bill 635

House Bill 635 Empowers Non-Resident Landowners to hunt Elk on their own land, Plus Four other proven strategies for non-resident landowners to maximize…

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Its almost like legislation made that market accelerate. Huh. Weird.

In the bigger picture, I don’t see this as a major reason, but we can agree to disagree.

With the outfitter subsidies they can lease and then use that access to tags, just like they did back in the 1990s.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

What is PTD?

 

[BuzzH]

What is PTD?

Public Trust Doctrine

 

[Forkyfinder]

In the bigger picture, I don’t see this as a major reason, but we can agree to disagree.

Yeah - wouldnt it be an obviously bad thing and contributor?

 

[mtmuley]

@El Jason, agree but you’re describing what the rest of the country (especially in the whitetail and waterfowl world) has already experienced long ago.

Montana isn’t special- just behind. Times change.

We like being behind. At least in this case. Hopefully we stay this way. mtmuley

 

[El Jason]

Yeah - wouldnt it be an obviously bad thing and contributor?

Honestly, I haven’t dug into the nuance of this today whether it’s good, bad, or neutral. Just saying the landowner exclusivity is nothing new and there were easy workarounds to tags back then and still are.

I’m sure it’s contributed. It would be naive to say it’s had zero affect. One of the neighbors to the Diamond Cross was using an outfitter to get tags for the owner long before this.

The bigger picture is far more complex than HB635.

 

[TheTone]

@El Jason, agree but you’re describing what the rest of the country (especially in the whitetail and waterfowl world) has already experienced long ago.

Montana isn’t special- just behind. Times change.

Nothing about that is good for the general populace. Do you think that high dollar leases, hunt clubs and outfitting have been a good thing for whitetail and waterfowl hunting?