My biggest gripe is nonresident fees on National Forest. My FEDERAL taxes pay to fund this land, but I am called a non-resident. $500 to hunt elk in CO on my federal land while the CO resident can hunt the same land my taxes are paying for for $36.00
You can hike, camp, bike ride, horse ride, etc. for free on those lands all year long, BUT the state is in charge of the management of the animals that live on those lands, not the feds. You're paying the states fees to hunt the animals that they are in charge of managing.
With a National hunting license, how would management work? In other words, how would states know how many hunters were hunting and how many animals were being harvested? If there is a Nationa game tag, what would keep hunters from all flocking to the same hot spots for certain game animals. I guess I'm having a hard time visualizing how a National tag would even work.
Mike H., I'm right there with ya. I am a NR landowner and Ihave no rights to hunt my own land like the resident landowners do. Doesn't seem right.