By the numbers.

15% Landowner Tags
15% Youth Tags
All drawn and allocated before the regular draw. So that's 30% of elk tags drawn before the regular draw happens. They have not changed this format as of yet maybe it will be changed.

I'm not real great at percentages but I'll give it an estimate.

Take out the 30% at a rate 65% for residents and 35% for non residents. It works out to something like this.

Residents will get an actual 49% of tag allocated for the draw after taking out that % of the youth and landowner tags.
Non-Residents will get an actual 21% of tags allocated for the draw after taking out that % of the youth and landowner tags.

That's a big difference in tags. It's not my fault it's just how it's done. Don't like it call your Parks and Wildlife Commission and file a complaint on deaf ears. I've set at these commission meetings and voiced ideas and opinions about managing tags and elk populations and trust me they already have the numbers set and their plans in action way before they take in public input. As in all government the mass suffers from the plans of the few. My suggestion is to show up at meetings and be a voice anyway.