Just think of it as a bonus opportunity and don't read any more into it than that.
As someone else mentioned, if you don't intend on going, don't apply. This is a quota hunt. They want "x" number of elk removed.
I'm in the area and my mla has talked to me about the elk/farmers around the base. My guess (nothing more) is that if sufficient numbers of elk are taken in these hunts then hunting will be how the herd is managed.
Flip side if insufficient numbers are taken it would not surprise me if other avenues are persued.
Point being we hunters do our part and we'll have good elk hunting opportunities here every year; we don't, we won't.
Food for thought.
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