Money is why. The state has huge budget defeciets and they are looking for a quick and easy way to increase revenue through liscenes and than as well, Taxes on things provided to out of state hunters. The lawsuits of course are about the Outfitters making as much money as possible. It is VERY short sighted of the state and Outfitters to be pushing for unlimited tags as in a year or two there won't be many of the Trophy Deer that are attracting the big money from out of staters. They would probably be best served financially long term by pumbing up the NR tags in price and bumping up numbers by 20-25%. This would be an increase of 3000 or so tags which could bring in an extra 1.2 million in funds for the state and it would be sustainable long term probably. It will hurt the in state hunter a bit (Probably too much really) but it will be a far smaller impact than the Dugan proposal and what the lawsuit wants. I don't know.

It is amazing how shortsighted people become when they are staring a shiney nickel in the eye.