WY preference point increase

[Addicting]

Bittersweet. But when you look around I cant help but think how many people it wouldn't take much to knock over the house of cards theyve built.

At today’s high fuel prices the wolves are huffing and puffing with gubmnt backed gusto.

 

[brymoore]

Bittersweet. But when you look around I cant help but think how many people it wouldn't take much to knock over the house of cards theyve built.

The Great Recession cleaned the deck. Some residents had trouble affording to hunt. IDFG was selling left over NR tags at 50% off and had tags leftover.

I don’t want another recession but I saw the economic effect on hunting.

 

[seeth07]

It may not even take a full blown recession for the impacts to possibly start hitting. Factors such as cost of living, wage raises not matching inflation, real estate prices, fuel prices, tax increases, NR fee increases and I'm sure many others are for sure starting to have their impact on the draws as participation metrics have seemed to level out in some draws rather than the steady increase that has happened over the last decade.

I know more people personally in my life that have dropped out of western hunting rather than jump in over the last two years. Anyone that has asked me about jumping in has rethought it after reviewing and seeing the costs associated with it.