I get what you’re saying, but there’s a difference between landowner permits and permits that are only valid on private land. It’s not a terrible idea. You make one permit type that’s good for both public and private, and one that’s only valid on private. The permit that is valid for both would obviously be the more coveted permit and there would be less of them. You draw that and you’re going to have a quality hunt. There would be a much higher percentage of private land only permits. Anyone can draw them, but you’d be wise not to apply for that permit unless you’ve got access to private. Drawing odds for that permit would be much better. This puts the majority of the hunting pressure on private land and permit numbers could actually be pretty high as long as the majority were private land only. It would likely spread elk out more and we’d probably kill more elk in these problem areas than we are currently. I wish we could try it in a unit or two to see how it would work. Seems like it could be better than the current system of giving out a shit load of permits because a district is 800% over objective even though only about 20% of it is publicly accessible.Dangerous game with that one