The number of hunting tags available exclusively to landowners could be capped under a draft bill forwarded Wednesday by a Wyoming legislative committee.

The bill would give the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission authority to cap landowner hunting licenses at 40% of the available hunting tags under certain circumstances.

That might include emergency situations, such as the massive die-off of big game animals during the harsh winter of 2022-2023. Game and Fish cut hunting tags in some parts of the state in the wake of those die-offs.

The Legislature’s Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands and Water Resources voted to forward a draft bill to potentially cap the number of landowner tags under such circumstances.

An identical draft bill is up for consideration next month before the Joint

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