CPW Raising prices

[CS1983]

So who's the real sheep in that case?

[Irving]

AND something like 85-95% of that money goes directly to managing those animals.

[CS1983]

What *is* management of wildlife?

[Irving]

I'm sure someone like Steven Rinella (who is always making that point) could tell you better than I could, but I'm pretty sure it's not getting all the park rangers Mercedes-Benz G500s to cruise around in and stuff.

[jslo]

Last year they got flooded with new applicants, so my guess is they look at the increase of $5/ea. for all those new applicants, as money, money, money.
Just think, now you get charged $50/ea when you apply for sheep, moose, goat. Lets say it takes you another 10 years to draw just one of those tags. You'll have spent $1500 just to draw one of those tags. At that rate, I'm out of the game.

Technically, it's $57/ea. You forgot the $7 application fee. But we're just talking crumbs here.

[UrbanWolf]

We've discussed this before, but why in the world didn't they raise the fee for non-residents?

They don?t want to discourage the tourists. Locals like us get shafted.

[Shooter45]

We've discussed this before, but why in the world didn't they raise the fee for non-residents?

Don't want to scare away all the non-residents that travel here to hunt big game paying over $600 a tag vs the local peasants who only have to pay $47.

[Singlestack]

We've discussed this before, but why in the world didn't they raise the fee for non-residents?

Because the progressives thought non-residents meant illegal aliens.

[ChickNorris]

Hahaha SingleStack

[Little Dutch]

I am looking at the wording on the "Annual ANS Stamp - Colorado Resident Vessels* "

* Vessels registered in the state of Colorado, or Colorado resident motorboats or sailboats documented by the U.S. Coast Guard or otherwise exempt from in-state registration​.

That asterisk includes all vessels "otherwise exempt from in-state registration​". I suspect that means they now want a $25 fee to put your kayak, float tube, canoe, etc on the water.