After going to many, many of the sportsman’s meetings, commissioners meetings, and special CPw meetings over the years, I have come to the conclusion that it is a massive waste of time and energy… No amount of logic nor common sense will penetrate the idealism of those in power with CPw…
Status Quo
Thanks for putting on a great meeting last night. The agenda was terrific, and so was turnout.
I did receive a response to my question. The way I read it, if residents retained OTC licenses in 2nd and 3rd rifle, and we limited nonresidents, then landowner preference would no kick in.
It seems really odd to me when during a process to potentially shift more licenses to residents, folks chime in to take all units limited for all hunters, and then give away 20% of the tags to landowners, leaving residents with a maximum of 49% of the public draw tags.
"The Landowner Preference Program (LPP) was created to give landowners a preference for hunting licenses to encourage private landowners to provide habitat that increases wildlife populations for the benefit of all hunters, discourage the harboring of game animals on private lands during public hunting seasons, and relieve hunting pressure on public lands by increasing game hunting on private lands."
"With passage of Senate Bill 13-188, a new landowner preference system was created called the Landowner Preference Program. The LPP replaces all previous landowner preference systems. In order to apply for landowner preference, the deeded landowner must register the deeded land with Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) by December 1 to be eligible for the drawing the following year."
Creative bullshit wordsmithing by PR pros. The real reason was to bow to landowner (outfitter) pressure to give them more vouchers to sell and profit from, while at the same time increasing nonresident license revenue by getting around the allocation percentage, since the majority of vouchers appear to be sold to nonresidents.
I understand part of that, especially now that hunting has truly become a commercial enterprise for landowners. But as Steve points out, it is being done at the expense of resident hunter opportunity. And I'm hearing of more and more landowner vouchers being sold without permission to hunt the ranch for which it was issued, which blows the last half of that quote. They are advertised as "unit-wide landowner vouchers".
And my state representative responded to me by saying there are no documented instances of vouchers being brokered on the open market by third party brokers. I told her to Google Colorado landowner vouchers for sale. Never heard back.
DESCRIPTION: 1 - Unit 62 Mule Deer Tag Unit Wide Archery Dates - September 2 - 30, 2022 Price - $2,000
Show Less PRICING OPTIONS: Landowner $2,000.00 Contact an advisor for more information. LANDOWNER CONTACT: OUTFITTER ID: LO LAST UPDATED: 7/27/2022 Tyler Streich (970) 596-5510 [email protected]
So I seems that land owner license can be advertised/sold as "unit wide" license , but the private land only licenses can only be transferred to youth or an immediate family member.
If I remember correctly, the "unit wide" use of these private land owner licenses are the ones where there is controversy.
