Free: Contests & Raffles.
I called WDFW this afternoon hoping to get to the bottom of this. The lady I spoke with told me she was informed this morning that there has yet to be a decision on the leftover multi season tags. The advice she was told to give to folks like us wondering was to keep checking their website for updates and make sure you have your email entered in online with your WILD ID account. There should be a decision by the end of the week.
I don't think that's it. They make $160ish bucks for each MS tag they sell - and they have little/no time invested to put them out there for sale. IMO They will sell every one of those tags if they possibly can; money is money and people are willing to buy the tags. The only way I see them not being available is if there are ten (or very few) available, in which case, they'd create negative feelings in their patrons by raising hopes for available tags, then getting sold out in the first 20 seconds.What really raises my eyebrows about the whole thing is that I cannot figure out how the applicants for this tag went from 8,500 two years ago (and before) to 13,000 plus for the last two years. It makes little sense when hunter numbers keep declining and harvest rates have remained similar from year to year.