Wyoming tranferable tag bill

[Bluffgruff]

Anyone in Wyoming get the email from WWF?

Link to find and contact state senators:

Find Your Elected Officials

secure.everyaction.com

 

[Nick87]

I got the email as well this evening. Will reach out.

 

[cgasner1]

Aw shit here we go again

 

[ropeup79]

HB0019 which defines corner crossing as legal is up in the House tomorrow as well.

 

[grizzly63]

How did they sneak this up on you suddenly? Is this dirty politics or have I been sleeping? Do not apply there but see the ramifications.

 

[shb]

So help me out here, im not seeing the evil.

If a landowner is distributing the tags I can buy, or network one.

If the gnf is distributing the tags im forever in the random, and may never draw another.




Sounds like there's at least a chance to get one from a landowner, a much higher chance than the random.


Honest question.

 

[Bluffgruff]

So help me out here, im not seeing the evil.

If a landowner is distributing the tags I can buy, or network one.

If the gnf is distributing the tags im forever in the random, and may never draw another.




Sounds like there's at least a chance to get one from a landowner, a much higher chance than the random.


Honest question.

It isn't about an individual being able to get a tag, it's about what that ability to sell the tag at whatever price the landowner can get that causes the problem.

Here's WWF's take:

What Are Transferable Landowner Tags—and Why Wyoming Is Different - Wyoming Wildlife Federation

Work on wildlife, habitat, and outdoor recreation policy with in Lander, WY. All staff receive one week PTO for hunting/angling and many other benefits!

wyomingwildlife.org

In Colorado, transferable landowner tags have lead to landowners feeling like they own the game, treating them as a commodity, taking tags from the draw (20%), thereby decreasing draw odds for the public draw hunters, decreasing access because now the price the landowner can get for the tag hinges to a degree on exclusivity, and the tag may not be limited to that landowner's land, taking away animals from hunters on public land.

Basically it's giving the landowners the animals to sell, akin to livestock, when they do not own the animals. There is very little benefit to the animals, the habitat, or public, who own the resource. It's about greed, nothing more.

Reading the bill, no one even put their name on it, just that it came out of committee.

There are other points and nuances, but this is what came off the top of my head at 2am.