[Outdoorfanatic]

Outfitters are not pushing this nor is the government, the AFGA overwhelmingly voted this resolution change this past February and so now the government is saying well why not. The kicker is mandatory means punitive if not complied with. So bottom line is some fellow hunters who have more faith in the government and less faith in their fellow hunters than I do proposed this change and strangely it passed. So government philosophy is in areas that they deem to not have enough harvest ie Caribou managed zones, CWD managed zones, elk zones in general they look at the harvest reports and determine success isn't high enough so the only option they have as different bios have directly told me is too increase the tag allocations and put more hunters out there. So success % actually declines but over all total kill increases is the theory. This is the only tool they have since the beaucracy is so difficult that too propose reg changes that would add value to existing hunts just doesn't happen. Soon we will have at best the same hunting opportunity with the same regs and more skewed harvest stats then ever and likely longer wait times for tags. And we'll be punished if we don't fill out a harvest report even if nothing was shot. And all thanks to our own fellow hunters. And that's the good part. Worse is if non hunters as they already have take those stats and pressure bios to reduce tag allocation on the bases that hunter success is too high. Future for the hunter is not good.