I look at this from a different perspective, I guess. TO ME.....states charge the extra fees to act as somewhat of a DETERRENT. If IL, Iowa, Ohio, KY opened their borders to all hunters......then they would have to limit access via a lottery (or some other viable method) or risk the depletion of their resource(s).

In the overall scheme of things......I just don't see the license fees as anything more than a drop in the bucket of a state's DNR budget (and I guess I'm thinking, locally, here).

If I were the IL DNR......I'd rather keep my $4,500.......than to allow 10 more hunters into my state to deplete the resources. If it were rock-bottom cheap to hunt other states.....I'd probably hunt VA, SC, TN and PA, this year. As it is....I might not hunt any of them. If I had to guess.....I'd say they were "just fine" with that.