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Division revises once‑in‑a‑lifetime nonresident allocations; Rack adds authority to call alternates for diseased bighorn herds
Summary
The Division of Wildlife Resources will pool once‑in‑a‑lifetime permits at the species level to guarantee a 10% nonresident allocation across those species and the Rack unanimously approved the division’s approach plus a Rack amendment authorizing the division to call alternates to address disease events in bighorn herds.
The Division of Wildlife Resources presented a revised approach to allocating once‑in‑a‑lifetime (OIL) big‑game permits to better achieve a 90/10 resident/nonresident split at the species level rather than rounding small hunt pools that had produced effective nonresident shares above 10% on some hunts.
Rusty Robinson (division staff) explained the practical problem: under prior practice each small hunt’s permits were independently rounded so a number of small hunts with 2–5 permits could leave a much higher fraction to nonresidents on a per‑hunt basis. The division’s new approach pools permits at the species level and…
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