RE: Resident vs. Nonresident
RED,I am not sure where the sheep topic came in???? But sheep migrate from federal land to private land in most of the sheep range in Wyoming every winter. If there is a winter. The issue to me isn't about nonresidents getting tags or nonresident prices. Wyoming gives 20% of all tags to nonresident draws, with sheep being the exception at 25%. I was saying the majority, that being 51% or more, of antelope and moutain goats, spend most or all of the year on federal land. Deer, elk, moose, sheep, lion, come and go. From private, state, county, and federal, both BLM and Forest.
If you kill any animal in Yellowstone, or even take a gun in, you are violating federal law. But you are sentenced in state courts not federal court. Wildlife in every National Park, not national forest, is strongly protected. The parks still relinquish that the wildlfie belongs to the state in which it resides.
You can go on and on about wildlife on federal land belonging to everyone, all I will say is, to bad, it doesn't and won't! Get over it!
I don't have a problem with raising resident prices either. I would gladly pay $200 for an elk or $1000 for a sheep, goat, or moose!