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Idaho General Season Going to Draw for Nonresidents
Sitka_Blacktail:
--- Quote from: Rob on June 04, 2025, 10:40:33 AM ---
The process used the past few years has been just crazy and stupid.
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They could have fixed the current system by limiting buying tags for others to kids and spouses. People buying for a bunch of their friends clogged up the the lines.
Rob:
Potentially. But it would still have been tricky for a party of 2 or 3 to get tags together and be able to hunt together.
CarbonHunter:
--- Quote from: luvmystang67 on June 04, 2025, 10:01:45 AM ---Some things I DO think:
1) Wolves have changed elk patterns and hunter patterns. There are many units that used to house hunting camps that are now devoid of hunters and elk. You can look back on harvest reports to see it. Has nothing to do with residents vs non-residents and everything to do with concentrating animals in fewer units.
2) Non-residents are no longer weekend warriors from WA and OR. They now include people from the east coast that spend 2 weeks hunting hard. Its a more obvious incursion to the woods as they spend more time and more money than those in the past.
3) While the hunters and harvest totals for the state are fairly stable, going back to #1, a lot of patterns have changed. If you hunted in a place where there were elk in the past, and now there are still elk, you observe more hunting pressure. If you moved from a now elk-light unit to a new one, you're probably sitting quietly and enjoying your new, more crowded, area.
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There are several units that are high public ground units with low resident hunting pressure that used to be hunted heavily by nonresidents. Those nonresidents are now being forced into units where resident hunters are more concentrated due to the way Idaho sets quotas.
If Idaho just went back to statewide tags for deer for nonresident hunters and stopped listening to the complaints the whole tag debacle would be over. They would still go faster than they used to but it wouldn’t be the issue of the last few years.
huntnnw:
I was reading a article in the past year on the ID rise in population and where are these people coming from. One interesting fact was WA. I dont remember the exact numbers, but something like 12,000 people in 2022 moved to Idaho from washington yet 11,000 people moved from ID to WA.
2MANY:
Lol.
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