ORIGINAL: bigbulls
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.
This argument doesn't hold much water because they don't restrict non-residents from hiking or camping in these same areas, they just restrict non-residents from hunting in these areas.
My 2 cents. Nathan