Why can't WYOF&G make all the unit numbers the same across all species?
Wyoming almost seems like they go out of their way to make things confusing.
They really do set hunters up to inadvertently do something wrong.
It doesn't just stop with the different boundaries and unit numbers for different species.
There are some big general areas for elk that cover several deer areas, and some areas where no antelope tags ,so you could never really get the zones to line up. I guess I am hunting the general areas this year like the common folk.................
There are some big elk units no doubt....but up near Jackson they're pretty small units, generally. Some units immediately adjacent to each other such as those near Bondurant will have season dates of Sep 26-Oct 31 (any elk), Sep 26-Oct 31 (any elk minus spike) and Oct 15-Oct 31 (bull only). Other nearby units have even different season dates. Then there's the antlered only from this day to this day, then antlerless from that day to that day, then back to any elk for these dates, which can all be different between the units. It's the same herd of elk that gets chased all over the Hoback area between these units...so why have the different season dates ? Is it just so game wardens can be at several different "opening days" in a season? Why the various sex/age restrictions?
Then there's the watershed divides that Wyoming likes to use as boundaries so damn much...Which can be really difficult to determine with twisting and meandering drainages all over the place. Several states use watershed divides, especially in wilderness areas but Wyoming seems to really like them. Then there's the creeks used as boundaries, which generally are OK but at some point at the headwaters the creek bed ceases to exist. You may come to a spring at the headwaters several hundred yards from the ridgeline (or the creek may just peter out), but uphill from that there's no established creek bed so there's a lot of subjectivity of the unit boundaries at the heads of those basins when creeks or rivers are used as unit boundaries. It's almost like they made a deal with OnXmaps to make their products about the only way to reliable know when you're legal up in the high country.
