Sounds similar to the Wyoming bear hunters who have no plan to hunt. Tag allocation is based on science. But they also are aware of success rates so I don't think much is happening that game & fish didn't account for.
I wear prescription glasses and have had them save me from pokes on more than one occasion. Granted I would spend hours on horseback after dark while working as a guide. I've just recently gone back to using contacts after a severe eye ulcer years ago and will definitely be wearing eye...
Awesome job and quite the accomplishment. I only have one retired fly, it belonged to my grandfather and has been around longer than my 33 years. My first cast with it caught a fish and at that point it became too valuable to use again.
You also need to be declaring WY as your primary residence for other purposes, tax, business, primary residence ect. You can't just have a seasonal home in WY and get a resident tag even if you spend 181 days here.
We'll see what happens though.
Excellent. I noticed NC was one of the 8 states signing the public land confluence accords.
https://www.colorado.gov/governor/sites/default/files/jul_25_confluence_accords.pdf
It's 12 tags outside the DMA and all 12 can be hunting at once. Inside the DMA it's 10 tags, only 1 sow. 1 person hunting at a time max 10 days per hunter
Supposedly a notable number of non hunters who applied for tags did so as residents when they only part time live in Jackson. I'm curious how seriously G&F looks in to that.
Essentially yes. There's 3 ways the region 1 hunt closes. 1 sow is killed, 10 total bears are taken, or the season ends. It's unlikely, but possible, for person 11 or 12 on the list to get a bear. If hunters fill their tags quickly, and the photographer (#8 on the list) doesn't take a bear. But...
They put people on a list, first on the list hunts for 10 days, then the next. So on and so forth until 10 bears are killed, one sow is killed or the season ends. The other region is for the 12 tags available outside the DMA
Rainbow is pretty good. They accidently gave a pile of my meat to someone else (an honest mistake when they explained it) so the owner drove 2 hours to get my meat back and they gave me my processing for free. It out added a day to my wait. If I didn't move to a place with a garage to process my...