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Originally Posted by Pikebreath
You seem to forget that that landowners are residents as well, and like it or not, they do have a much bigger vested interest (and opportunity cost) in habitat stewardship that non landowning residents do not have. The only antlered tag a landowner can get is for mule deer, that is the only real "thank you" we get from our govt. to provide habitat.
Bull moose with their penchant to spend weeks living in my canola and pea crops probably do far more damage on my farm than any other critter. Could make a pretty strong argument for landowner antlered moose tags!
Thanks for the link BTW,,, confirms that less than 10% of the resident antlered mule deer tags were landowner tags.
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The landowner tags are there so they can shoot problem deer, not trophy hunt. You could essentially grow 180" mule deer every year and never need a draw tag.