I agree that if I am going to Canada or Africa or any other FORIEGN COUNTRY, that a guide is not only a good idea but required by foreign countries that you have a guide because youor Iare not a citizen of that country!! But why do you think the state of Wyoming requires a US CITIZEN to hunt in its wilderness areas? Because they care about your safety.....no! Because they want you to be successful in your hunt....no! Its because they know they can tax the crap out of the Outfitters by requiring you to pay one of them to hunt on land......WE ALREADY OWN AS TAX PAYERS IN THIS COUNTRY! Most wilderness areas are federally protected lands. As far as people going into the wilderness that dont know what they are doing / getting themselves into, well I am nobodies keeper, if they cant survive then maybe they should not go out hunting in the first place. My whole thing is, I think that people have been so inundated with getting a guide and killing nothing but trophies, that the true reasons a guy or gal should be hunting has been lost by alot of the people going afield. It just saddens me, that people have become so LAZY! And now (Wyoming is a good example) the states are starting to see they are missing out on alot of possible revenue from leasing public grounds out to outfitters to charge us...The Workin Man/Women....to hunt on land that is ours in the first place. Yes I understand that people want to see big animals killed on TV..no problem. But what do they say after each one of those kills something like...."if you want the experience of a lifetime call """""outfitters!" when most of the time you will never see an animal of that caliber if you do book your hunt! you will be lucky to seean animal any one of us could see on a Do it yourself hunt, only you will pay between 3K and 25K to kill it. How many of us workin folks can afford that? I hunt out of state every year for elk and deer as well as in state, but yes i do sacrifice alot of other things to do it, BECAUSE I LOVE TO HUNT THOSE ANIMALS. I make the time to learn about the animals I hunt, learn how beat them in there living room....out of respect for the animal, when and if I am lucky enough to harvest one.