I just got a look at the 2023 Colorado brochure and saw that the price of a Cow elk tag has jumped from a little over $500 last year to $760.99 this year. The brochure says that for the $760.99 for can draw for a Cow tag and either sex tag and purchase a bull tag (in OTC areas) all for the same price.
Has anyone else seen this and is this a misprint?
Thanks for your input.
Twenty plus years ago Colorado had 20K-40K more elk than the habitat/herd objective could support. To encourage more hunters to apply for cow licenses the CPW reduced cow tags for NR (the same way they have reduced NR bear tags in recent years). Now that elk populations are at herd objective, or even slightly below, there are a lot less licenses available. Plus, as PP creep has continued a lot of hunters are applying for cow tags rather than wait to garner enough PP's for a limited license bull tag.
The demand is now there for cow tags, so they set cow tag prices back to the same price as bull tags, the way it was up until the early 2000's sometime.
Casey
Not being married to any particular political party sure makes it a lot easier to look at the world more objectively... Having said that, MAGA.
