"Proposed License Fees for Wyoming" Udated link

[Bigshooter]

http://www.huntthewest.com/2012/WYfees.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HuntTheWest+%28Hunt+the+West%29





I got this off of another site.  If this is correct, I find it sad.







Here is the new proposed license fees as they were presented at the Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resource Committee meeting, held August 23, 2012 in Jackson, WY.

Mule deer and Whitetail deer licenses will become species specific but no variation of license fee was presented, so I am assuming all deer licenses would cost the same.

Resident:
Antelope: from $31 to $48
Deer: $36 to $52
Elk: $50 to $75
Moose: $110 to $175
Big Horn Sheep: $115 to $250
Mountain Goat: $120 to $260
Black Bear: $43 to $52.50
Daily Fishing: $4 to $7
Annual Fishing: $22 to $36

Non-resident:
Antelope: from $270 to $370
Deer: $310 to $520
Elk: $575 to $750
Moose: $1400 to $1750
Big Horn Sheep: remains @ $2500
Mountain Goat: $2150 to $2600
Black Bear: $360 to $437.50
Daily Fishing: remains @ $12
Annual Fishing: remains @ $90


Other Licenses:
Conservation Stamp: $12 to $14.50
Res. Archery: $14 to $17
Non-res. Archery: $28 to $34
Res. Application Fee: $5 to $6
Non-res. App. Fee: $14 to $17


Reduced Fees:
Res. Annual Game Bird: $14 to $10
Res. Small Game: $14 to $10
Res. Combo GB/SG: $22 to $15

[Ridgerunner]

Ouch

[6x6in6]

The current non-resident costs you copied from elsewhere look to be a touch low (roughly 5%) but still, if those new numbers become reality that is a tough one to swallow. 

[actionshooter]

Montana and Idaho haven't sold out yet and they are begging for hunters to come visit

Seems they raised there fees a couple of years ago.
 
 I wonder if those two facts have anything to do with each other?

[mkcj]

Same as here right resident's pay 10% of non-residents fee's?

[lhrbull]

looks like wyoming is looking to reduce non-resident hunter like montana a few years back

[dvolmer]

The states want the max they can get financially and still sell all of there licenses.  For instance if they have 5000 out of state deer tags and have 10,000 people putting in for them at $300 say, they want to know how much they can raise the tag and have 5500 people putting in for the 5000 tags.  They know that as they raise the tag price, people will start bailing on buying them.  But they dont care as long as they sell them all.  This is what happened in Montana.  They had twice as many people putting in for the amount of tags they had and decided to raise the price up to see if they could get the ratio to be close to equal in applicants and tag numbers.  montana got a little bit too greedy and raised the tag cost up and above the amount they should have and now cant sell all of there licenses.  People are laughing at them but they are still making out like bandits.  This is due to the higher costs they get for the ones they do sell.  if they have 1500 left out of the 140000 they sell they still are doing a lot better because the 12500 people that did buy tags bought them at close to twice as much as they were selling before they raised the price.  They figure in the future when the economy gets better the other 1500 will sell.

If you were selling your truck and you asked $1000 for it and you had 20 people call you to buy it, wouldnt you prefer to sell your truck for $2000 and have three people call and want to buy it.  Even better you could sell it for $2500 and have just one person want to buy it.  This is the principle they are practicing.  Not fun for the out of state hunter but good and big business for the states of Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming with hardly any people living there and limited resources due to low population and revenue.

[Bean Counter]

Wow, thanks!!!! 

I was just about to start playing the points game and I was going to start with Wyoming.  Still a few weeks left to buy points. I guess they don't want my money, afterall.

[longrange7mm]

  if thats the case the draw odds just improved and im going to hav to start working extra  what a joke I know a lot of residents that will not buy elk tags at that price as well this is going to be like MT was after there big price jump!!

[bobcat]

You can't really blame them. It only makes sense to set the fees as high as the market will bear. Heck it looks like their NR fees were lower than Oregon's. It seems reasonable that Wyoming prices should at least be close to the same as Oregon, if not higher, since in general the hunting is better.

[NRA4LIFE]

This is great news.  Stopped hunting there 10 years ago.  Yet another good reason not to hunt there.

[actionshooter]

I don't blame them either, they have budgets to maintain, I just don't like it..............but it hasn't stopped me, I have a pocket full of Idaho and Montana tags. I guess I just like to bitch.

[Bean Counter]

Sounds like ya'll are sure this proposal is going to through (?) 

[6x6in6]

WY has a state law that basically states that at least every 5 years the Commission shall review an analyze license fees.  The last time WY did a review was 2007 and increases were implemented for 2008.  This also happened back in 2002/2003. 
Both reviews in the past resulted in about a 15% average across the board increase to non-res fees. 
The 2012 proposed fees are similar to the proposed fees of the past on a % of increase basis.  The Commission whacked away at those proposed fees back then.  Maybe the Commission has paid attention to what has happened to their neighboring states and either do nothing or at best only a slight increase. 

[trophyhunt]

Wow, that fn sucks. I have one less than max points for Wyoming and now I don't think I will be applying next year, what a bunch of crap.