[M.T. Pockets]

I'm a non-resident and would love to have a place in Wyoming where I could hunt cow elk. I'd gladly pay a realistic trespass fee to hunt private land, you'd think more landowners would offer this. By realistic I'm thinking no more than $500 per hunter. Trouble is, I can't find a place that isn't leased up by an outfitter. I've seen guided cow hunts, but I won't pay $2,000. I do think that residents should have first opportunity to hunt these elk, and I can't believe that they wouldn't have more than 300 people who would buy these licenses.

There just has to be a better way than the way it is being done.

I grew up on a cow-calf operation so I know the economics of raising livestock. I'd let cow elk hunters on to thin them out and chase them off the property to some other guys hay stacks.