OK here is my take on the high license fees.
You got big deer and highly publicized hunting = expensive permits. Here is the issue though, when your expensive non res. permits are not sold due to the economy who do you think gets stuck with a license increase?? You the resident does. The other problem is that they build a Fish and Wildlife dept that need these funds to survive because they think that people will always pay and when they don't so who loses in the end? And yet another problem is they get greedy ignoring sound wildlife data and practices and issue way to many permits cause they see green.