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Originally Posted by expmler
I would rather pay that fee to a land owner that provides me access and opportunity.
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Would you really ? You have talked about hunters paying $50 per elk, seems reasonable, now fast forward a little. The neighbor wants his piece of the pie and so do all the other neighbors. Now we just eliminated some access from a few good responsible hunters that always hunted there, because they wont pay . The new guy might have deeper pockets but shallower ethics. The landowner with the most elk and best habitat bumps his price to $200, supply and demand
Pretty soon its a grand per animal,does that still seem reasonable, Safeway seems like a more viable option at this point. Where does it all end. Imo with very few deep pocketed guys taking a few animals. Not even enough to to remotely affect the population, because the others have been priced out. Now you are back to the same old problems with the elk with no way to fix it. I guess you could just go back to allowing permission to responsible hunters for free
If there was any left who would come.