Market-Based Licenses

Sun., April 28, 1996

Associated Press

Hunting

Montana came close in matching price to demand in a new market-based system covering some nonresident, outfitter-guided hunters.

The department set the prices at $835 for a 1996 outfitter set-aside elk license and $515 for an outfitter set-aside deer license.

Those licenses require that the nonresident hunt with a specific outfitter, whose name is required on the license application.

As of recently, the department had sold about 3,120 deer combination licenses and 5,100 elk licenses, said Dave Mott, the department’s finance administrator. The deer licenses oversold its annual quota of 2,300 by 812; the elk combination license quota of 5,500 undersold by 400.

But over five years, the prices will be adjusted to balance the sales to meet quotas that protect deer but maximize profits.

As usual, demand exceeded supply for the separate non-outfitted nonresident licenses, with drawings required to award the 11,500 elk and 4,300 deer tags.

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