There's a 10 week season in MT. If the elk hoarding ranches can't cut numbers down during that season, they don't need special seasons set. Solution is to allow more hunting, not special seasons catering to their business.
There's a state program here called "ranching for wildlife." The ranches sign up to the program, and get to host their paying hunters during the elk rut, using rifles. You can't do that on public land, the rifle seasons are after the rut.
In exchange, they have to allow a certain number of cows (set by CP&W) to be taken off their ranches by the general public, who get the tags through the draw.
That could work. Lots of cows are taken with those tags, on some places they're almost a sure thing.
