If Terk is overturned, the NM quota for sheep will be 6% unguided nonresidents, 10% guided residents or nonresident, and 84% residents, all guaranteed quotas. While the 10% guided quota is available for nonresidents and residents, history indicates that 2/3 or more of the applicants and lucky applicants will be nonresidents. The NM nonresident quota will be about 12 to 16%. This is higher than the quota of most states at 10% max, and it is guaranteed. . It many states (AZ, MT, etc) the 10% nonres quota is a "maximum" and quite often less than 10% goes to nonresidents. In other states (Colorado) the nonresident tags are set aside in only specific units. Many of the best units are not available for nonresidents In AZ nonresidents are limited by the rules to drawing in hunts where there are at least two tags (non res limited to a maximum of 10% of all sheep tags and 50% of a given hunt's tags). That prohibits nonresidents from drawing in over half of the sheep units.
In NM the quotas are guaranteed. Overall, NM will have one of the highest percentage of tags available for nonresidents, behind only wyoming and washington I believe. CA has a quota of 1 nonres tag for the entire state. MT has nonresidents apply for specific units prior to setting tag numbers. Often one of the few units available for nonresidents to apply doesn't end up having a nonresident tag available. Any nonresidents that apply for the unit have zero chance of drawing. Whether NM quotas sans Terk would be fair or not is a separate issue, but compared to other states, they would have to be considered generous.
Perhaps it is time to start thinking about how to allocate the tags for the nonresident and guided quotas if Terk is set-aside.
It will be complicated and there are many possible options. There are 37 sheep tags, (9 rocky ram, 12 rocky ewe, 16 desert ram). For other species, the quotas are applied by hunt code. Since the tag numbers are so small per hunt code .06 or .1 times the tag number yields a fraction for all hunts except latir ewe with 11 tags. which would yield one guided tag for the guided quota. If they just multiple the quotas times all the tags do the include the ewe tags in the total and give 2 nonresident tags and 3 guided tags and just let them be drawn in whatever hunt they end up being drawn in or do they set up quotas for ewes and rams nad have 1 guided ewe tag and 2 guided ram tags and 1 nonresident ram tag? Do they apply the quotas separately to rockys and deserts?
There are a lot of factors to be worked out.
I kind of think they should apply the quotas across each species and sex and allocate specific tags for the guided and nonresident quotas. That would be the "Colorado" model. Any thought on how this should work?