RE: An Outcry for Equal Access Hunting on Federal Land in WY
Alaska does the same thing when hunting certain species. You must use a guide or be with resident family members.
The reason they do this isto keep people safe. Fartoo many people come out from back East, California, or where ever that have never seen the Rocky Mountains, much less hunted miles into the wildernessand end up getting lost in wilderness mountains, getting injured, etc... etc... and have to be rescued and the state has to pay for it, the state has to riskthe livesof their residents searching for these lost people, The state must use their equipment and resources, etc... etc...not the Feds.
No one is forcing people to hunt in Wyoming or any where else and hunting is not a right guaranteed to you by any constitutional document. It is a privelage and if someone doesn't like their hunting laws they don't have to hunt in that state.