406dn
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Furthermore, if you think that our systems for NR access to hunting tag allocations haven’t not marginalized NR to the point where an entire industry is being built around commercializing wildlife your pretty well clueless. If that’s an idea to promote DIY public land hunting seems like it’s going about it ass backward. As all your doing is creating islands of hunters who only care about their own states because that’s all they will have access too.
A good decade or more ago, the outfitting industry in Montana convinced the state to have a quarter or so of the elk combination licenses available directly thru an outfitter. They were priced higher than the other tags. It was sold as giving outfitters more certainty that their clients would actually get a tag.
It was RESIDENT hunters who felt this was UNFAIR to NR hunters who wanted to hunt on their own, without hiring an outfitter. Your fellow diy hunters, living in Montana, gathered signatures to get an initiative on the ballot to get rid of the outfitter set aside. It passed and the program ended. Outfitters keep making runs to get it back, and regular Montana hunters keep trying beat it back.
It is beyond offensive that you portray resident hunters in the West as selfish pricks. If we are, you'd fit right in.