>Jeff, can you elaborate on this
>a little further. So if
>residents still get 84% of
>available tags how do they
>make the cuts if NR
>have already drawn their tags?
>Am I no understanding something.
>
I'll try to explain with an example of an elk area with 200 type 1 tags and three different scenarios: 1st no quota change
NR get a 32 quota (16%), but because of party apps NR draw 34 tags- res get 84% of 200 or 168 tags. Total tags 202
2nd, quota goes down to 150 AFTER NR are drawn, NR get 32 tags because early draw doesn't account for new quota, residents get 84% of 150 or 126, or a total of 182
3rd, quota goes up after NR are drawn. NR get 32 tags, res get the larger of 84% of new quota of 250 or what's left after NR taken out of new quota. In this case res get 218 or about 87% of new quota. Total tags 250
In the first two cases the quota is almost always over what's approved by the Commission. Only raising the quota keeps the number true, unless a res party is drawn near last tag.
Here is the reg:
(B) Following the nonresident elk drawing, quotas for resident limited quota full priced and reduced price cow/calf elk licenses shall be the greater of the elk quotas established by
Commission regulation less any elk licenses currently issued to nonresidents or eighty-four (84%) percent of the quota established by Commission regulation. The order of the resident elk initial drawings depicted in this section shall be Resident Landowner Licenses, then Resident Regular Licenses.