ORIGINAL: Wolf killer
Most non-residents do not have everything they need to make a good wilderness hunthappen on there own. Horses, wall tents, wood stoves &Wilderness savy to make it on there own when things go bad.
Every year resident & non-resident hunters get lost & die in the mountains. Wilderness or not, resident or non-resident,some people need a full timebaby sitter.
I stand behind Wyoming Game & Fish.
That's nice, because you are about the only one who feels that way, including most every WY resident Italked to out there. Nonresidents are allowed to hike, backpack, camp, bird hunt, small game hunt, pick daisies, etc, etc, etc. The state thinks they are all qualified to do these things.......just not hunt big game. It's just another liberal entitlement program set up for a special interest group. Politics at it's best.
I backpack hunt into wilderness areas almost every year, and I live in Illinois! Did two this year, Nevada & Colorado. I don't need politicians telling me where I can't go. Don't build fires to scare off game. One man bivy, no wall tents needed.
Definitely not interested in horses. They are noisy and have to be babysat. Hell two years ago I had to babysit the outfitters camped next to me when one of theirs got out of it's rope fence and bighorns were gorging on his oats. They'd have emptied the saddle bags in an hour. The next day I packed up and moved around to a basin where horses could not enter. There were no outfitters in there, just elk.