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Game and Fish Commission leaves landowner-license thresholds intact, expands immediate-family definition
Summary
Following public comment, the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission decided not to increase the minimum acreage requirement or animal-use-days threshold for landowner licenses. The commission did expand the definition of "immediate family" to include step-relatives and removed a proposed 20% 'significant interest' ownership threshold.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department briefed the TRW committee on recent public outreach and Commission action regarding proposed changes to landowner licenses.
Chief Game Warden Dan Smith said the Commission's November proposals — including increasing the minimum qualifying acreage from 160 to 640, raising animal-use days from 2,000 to 3,000, and requiring a 20% significant ownership interest — received substantial public opposition. The department collected 311 online…
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