Wyoming Bighorn Stats, part II
I should have mentioned it, but the Stats given above are for the Non-Resident Wyoming Bighorn draw.
For the Resident Bighorn draw, the number of Max PP holders from the 2005 was 931, but only 873 entered the 2006 draw, for a pre-draw attrition of 58. Of the 873, 132 drew permits in the PP draw. Subtracting an additional estimate of 4 permits from the random draw, and 18 attrition, projects 719 Max PP holders to 2007.
The total number of applicants in the Resident Bighorn draw fell from 8,798 in 2005 to 7,593 in 2006. This reduction was much less, on a percentage basis, than the reduction in the Non-Resident draw, based in part on the fact that the cost of a PP for the Resident draw was only $7, while for the Non-Resident draw it was a heafty $100.
The distribution of the 2006 applicants, Resident and Non-Resident, among the various PP classes (from a Max of 11 on down to a Min of 0) has not yet been posted. The link for this information for 2005 is:
http://gf.state.wy.us/downloads/pdf/TotalPreferencePoints05.pdf
One would assume that a disproportionate number of the 5,239 Non-Residents abandoning the Bighorn draw from 2005 to 2006 were from the ranks of those who had the fewest number of points entering the draw. Any projection of a "time period to draw" for those holding fewer than Max points. however, will have to wait until Wyoming publishes the Total Preference Point data for 2006.