Thats the way it is here in Montana too Colorado Bob. Each hunting districts has quotas in which are issued by permits. A friend of mine was called by the local game warden in wanting him to get a problem cat that had been on a ranchers livestock. He got his dogs and got the cat treed in a huge ponderosa pine and shot it. He told me the cat was the biggest that he had ever gotten and from what he says would of made the record books but the warden made them burn the entire thing as my friend wept.