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If elk tags were to be auctioned off, I don't doubt that I'd soon be priced out of hunting.
A couple years ago we almost had a grizzly hunt in Idaho with 1 tag up for grabs. A liberal judge stopped the hunt on a day or 2 before it opened.
The tag was drawn in a lottery. The tag was priced the same as moose, bighorn, or mtn goats, about $200 for a resident, $2600 for non-resident. This tag could have been auctioned off and brought many times that. I can see rich people paying $20k or more for a grizzly tag. They'll pay that much for a high fence farm elk, why not for a grizzly? As it was, the IDFG thought it only fair to price it so an average hunter could afford it.