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Debate grows over landowner big-game licenses: commission proposals vs. calls to allow marketing and transfers
Summary
The Game and Fish Commission has put forward definition and eligibility changes for landowner licenses; private proponents urged allowing landowners to market or assign landowner tags, prompting opposition from hunting and conservation groups.
Commission and department leaders briefed the committee on ongoing work about landowner big-game licenses and the broader debate over who should qualify and whether landowner tags should be transferable or marketable.
Director Angie Bruce described a multi-year task-force and commission effort on how “landowner” is defined where limited big-game licenses are at issue. The department summarized four proposed changes currently out for comment: increase the acreage requirement for ranch land from the current 160 acres to 640 acres; raise a minimum ownership-percentage threshold (the department said it proposed a 20% minimum ownership in some drafts); adjust the definition of “immediate family” to explicitly include stepchildren; and raise the animal-use-stays threshold from 2,000 to 3,000 for qualifying by use. Bruce and staff said a recommendation to…
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