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Who is preventing you from hunting these areas? Tags are available and the game is there but as a non-resident you will pay more for the privilege of hunting it. There is no such thing as a right to hunt other states. It is a privilege, not a right.

Are you aware that every state charges a non-resident much more than what it charges a resident to hunt? For instance, you're from Arkansas and Arkansas is really well known for hunting waterfowl, especially mallards in flooded timber. Let's do a comparison of resident vs non-resident costs for that.

A Resident Wildlife Conservation License which would allow you to hunt ducks is $10.50. For a non-resident to hunt ducks the cheapest license it would be the Nonresident 5-Day Small Game Hunting License at a cost of $55.00. Then we have to toss in the Arkansas waterfowl stamp which costs a resident $7.00 but costs a non-resident $35.00. See the difference in costs? You can hunt a flock of ducks for $17.50 and it would cost me $90.00 to hunt that same flock of birds. Every state does this. if you don't believe me, go to the individual state's websites and look at the license fees.

By the way, the courts have ruled that the game in the individual states belongs to, and is the responsibility of, the states. Therefore, the residents of those states (whom the game depts. work for) enjoy the benefit of resident costs vice non-resident cost. You, as a resident of Arkansas do not have the right to tell WY or MT, or CO, or NY, or FL how to manage their wildlife. It is what it is, deal with it.