Appetite - yes.
Ability - not as much
Here is why:
https://archive.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0870/chapter_0020/part_0050/section_0050/0870-0020-0050-0050.html
MCA 87-2-505 establishes the B10 big game combination license. Out of that license, 28.5% goes into the Hunting Access Account, which...
The B10 big game combination license has 17,000 licenses statutorily approved. The elk combo are within those 17K, which is also how fewer than 17K deer licenses had been sold under the old system.
You know, as a candidate, Walter White has a lot going for him:
Former school teacher, successful business man, dedicated family man, able to handle tense situations with diplomacy as well as force when necessary. He's decisive, smart and above all else, he pays attention to product quality...
Until 2013 or 15, FWP was not allowed to resell the deer licenses that were returned under the big game combo. So in essence, those licenses that were originally purchased under the combo and then returned as the hunter wanted to chase only elk were being refunded but not sold for the original...
All license revenue goes in to the general license account or to accounts prescribed by law such as Hunter access, habitat MT, Upland & wetland conservation funding, which spent by the wildlife, fisheries, communication & education, law enforcement & admin divisions.
Parks is funded through a...
I really want folks to see this bolded part.
Overall resident hunters are declining, overall Hunter pressure from residents equates to 18,000 new hunters in the field. That is a massive part of the distribution & pressure issue.