Drawing WY Elk Tag a Thing of the Past? | Week of June 13

This was the last week of bear hunting for the crew this spring. So we get a quick glimpse of Randy and Marcus’ end-of-the-season efforts.  Congratulations to Paul Kemper for getting married to Jordanne! Michael gives us the update on the rivers and the crazy floods that hit this week. We talk about the Vail Bighorn Sheep Initiative and their issues with Vail Resort trying to develop in important winter range. Good news with the Recovering Americas Wildlife Act passing the House, hopefully the momentum continues.  We discuss the proposed regulation changes that would open up 54,000 acres to additional hunting and fishing opportunities on National Wildlife Refuge lands and waters, but also along with these changes comes reduced use of lead ammunition and fishing tackle. For the deeper dive, Randy fills us in on what’s going on within the Wyoming Wildlife Taskforce and the proposed change of reducing non-resident DIY elk hunters down to 5% of the available tags while creating a subsidy for WY outfitters.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices