wildaggie13
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- Jan 15, 2015
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I read the other day that Wyoming H and G units fawns have had a 99% death rate and many other statistics show that there will be an age gap in the next 3-4 years coming up. I don't want to get into the nonresident/resident topic of discussion, but from a deer management standpoint. Wyoming is once again looking at cutting 200 nonresident tags from each of these units. Now while that makes sense, on the other hand how does it make any sense what so ever to still allow everyone in Wyoming to hunt these units as a general tag. If I were a resident and knew that in 3-4 years the deer might not be as good quality, then I would make sure I hunted it this year and the next. Now this doesn't help the deer herd recover at all. In my opinion, if the department doesn't want to overhaul their complete system just implement some type of temporary tag allocation for residents as well in just these units until the herd can recover. Maybe just sell a set number of tags or even set a quota like they do on black bears. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I do know that it doesn't make much sense from a management standpoint to cut 200 tags from nonresidents but on the other hand still allow residents to have free reign of the units as they wish. What do ya'll think?