well right now its up in the air and people aren't saying anything for sure yet.
This is what i've heard....
its only on state land
and its not all exclusive...
they are going to make maps of all the state land, divide it up into areas, and then determine how many guides they'll allow to operate in each area, multi-use and some might be exclusive.
How they are going to award these areas is still up in the air, they don't want to do the highest bidder deal, cause then you'll get cabela's or something backin' a guide so they can stay in business, then basicly you've got walmart for a guide indudstry.
What i've heard is that they are building up an application that will be awarded on a point system much like kodiak national wildlife refugee, score points for time in the area, experience, happy clients, clean record blah blah...supposibly we'll have a look at all this this coming december, but once it hits public comment some folks will flip out and it'll all probably fall apart for a while longer.
PROS and CONS...
prices will go up, they will anyway. Some guides will loose their jobs or just keep guiding illegally, some are already anyway, some hobbiest guides may get the area and some guides who actually guide for a living might loose their areas, some alaskan guides will loose out to non-alaskan guides.
But there will be less pressure, some draw areas will have better odds at pulling tags, but you'll more than likely end up paying for it. Hunt quality in SOME areas will get better.
Right now this is all rumor and speculation and nothing has been finalized as of yet....
