MD, thanks for the explanation, makes perfect sense. Lots of different angles here. Colorado's landowner tag system is slanted toward the landowners so badly it's pathetic. Their landowner tags are good not only for their property, but the whole Unit that their land is in and some of those units take years and years to draw. And they can sell the vouchers. Ag. Is a powerful lobby here. RFW is just a tool to give public land hunters access to remove some cows and put meat in the freezer, one of the few aspects of the landowner system here that benefits the average hunter.
I believe CO just went from a 1:1 public:private tag system to a proposed 1:3 public:private did they not? They did so against the comments and opposition of every major (and even all the not so major) conservation and sporting organizations in the state and nationally that commented, too.
