It will make it harder to predict if you have enough priority in a draw to get a permit. There could be a bunch of hunters hiding in the weeds with more priority than you and if they decide to apply you will be bumped out.

As I have posted here before the Alberta Fish and Game Association has passed a resolution and will ask the Alberta Gov' t. to allow a hunter who is drawn and can not or wishes not to make use of that permit, to turn it in and retain his priority. For example if a hunter got cow elk and bull moose and mule deer they may only want to buy the cow elk and try for the bull moose next year. Or a hunter gets drawn for a permit in July and has to have back surgery in Aug. They may not be able to hunt that fall. The permit turned in would be avalible to another hunter.

Robin