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Looks like NR hunting license will double in cost for 2017. My grizzly tag goes from $500 to $1000.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/ho...cense fees.pdf

. . . and if I wanted to hunt Colorado as a NR:

Moose = $2,084
Mtn Goat = $2,084
Rocky Bighorn Sheep = $2,084
Desert Bighhorn = $1,389

So, exactly why are you here bitchin'?

Yeah, what he said

Holy Crap thats going to hurt. But everyone is doing it.

Who says I'm bitching? Just stating a fact. Maybe you could say something like there has not been a price increase since 93. AK got behind the curve, and is playing catch up. It's a 100% increase---you don't see those everyday.

Or maybe AK is in trouble with the price of oil. Everything is going up.

I get a "page not found" from that link. Can't even find the prices on their website. So how much is a non resident hunting/fishing license.

AK is not unlike a lot of other states. Feeding a [bleep] of nonproductive people costs a lot of money and it has to come from somewhere.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/sta...ska_license_fees.pdf

Doesn't work---I tried to cut and paste from Accurate Reloading.

It's in the Alaska Thread.

1minute-----looks like it's $230 this year and in 2017 it's $305.

Paid $40.00 less as a nonresident ($140.00 vs $100.00) to hunt Whitetail bucks in NY last year....

License Fees 2017

with how overly cheap AK NR tags were you knew it had to come.

But like anything when you aren't planning, and gas goes from 1.50 a gallon to almost 5.00 seemingly overnight, its hard to adjust to.

Regardless of the cost, its never anything but a bargain to be allowed into the great state.

Wow, they are jacking up rates.

Seems they could have done better for everyone by making the tag increases reflect the attractiveness of the critters and the probability of success. A wolverine tag for example was already over-priced due to a tiny chance of ever killing one.

At 300 our deer tags are over-priced but our sheep tags are still way low. And I really like hunting our deer...

I agree. $450 for a POW/ SE coastal black bear is OK. But as an add on to caribou/moose hunt seems high. I think they will lose "yeah give one of those" additional tags.

The real cost of a hunt is getting there and back.

If you want to dance, you pay the fiddler. I want a grizzly, AK is the only state where that can happen. So, I'll pony up the extra $.

and the extra 500 ain't nothing compared to teh rest of it.

Figure a guided moose is 15-20K so 400 extra won't hurt.

Like big oil for one

Big Oil is where it ALL came from, but those days are over for quite a while...

The State has stepped on its dick for so long it will take forever to bring Big Oil back.

sin tax

That is the one that jumped out at me. My buddy comes up and would buy 4 for $600. Now I doubt he'll be too interested at $300 a tag. I doubt they'll make much more money on deer tags as a lot less will be sold.