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Originally Posted by Pikebreath
And is it just coincidence that most of the best mule (and whitetail) deer hunting in this province is in zones with high percentages of private farmland ownership? Maybe,,, just maybe,,, the presence of crop and hayland provides additional food sources that allow the mule deer and other game to thrive which in turn provides more total available tags for everybody (residents,,, landowner,,, and non res alike).
And on the subject of "resident hunters", is not the landowner who lives there year around and "shares" his crop and forage with the mule deer perhaps even "more resident" than the hunter who lives three hours away?
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I believe the point may have been made before but warrants repeating.
Just because the areas you refer to are lush with good habitat and more abundant with game, does not justify outfitters being eligible to far exceed the 10% quota, as in some WMU's where outfitters are getting possibly as high as 50% of the draw tags. They justify this by taking far less than 10% in other WMU's that are devoid of game anyway.
As for landowners, I have absolutely no issue with their eligibility for tags. After all, it is these people who are the stewards of the land where our wildlife live and flourish, this often happens at the expense of land owners, eating from their croplands, haystacks, etc.