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75 °F Forecast | Road Cams Saturday, August 28, 2004 Today's News | Classifieds | Autos | Homes | Jobs | Tempo | Health | Community | Home Delivery SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion - Politics Tempo AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map SPECIAL SECTIONS Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Prime Times Wellness Connection Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Wedding Guide Rogue Valley's Finest EXTRA Newspaper in Education Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People MARKETPLACE Find a Car Find a Home Find a Job Classifieds Place an ad eSouthernOregon Automotive Communities Entertainment Publications Recreation Calendar CUSTOMER SERVICE Frequent Questions Advertising Information Home Delivery Employment Contact Us Media Kit Network Affiliate Oregon Road Conditions & Cams Email Story to a Friend July 22, 2004 Oregon could follow Arizona’s decision on out-of-state hunting permits By MARK FREEMAN Mail Tribune State wildlife managers are probing whether a federal judge’s decision throwing out Arizona’s cap on out-of-state hunting permits jeopardizes a similar system used in Oregon. U.S. District Judge Robert Broomfield had declared Arizona’s 10 percent cap on the number of permits that go to non-Arizona hunters an unconstitutional infringement on interstate commerce. The judge also prohibited the state from using the cap again. On Monday, he refused to delay the effect of his order. The ruling forced the Arizona Game and Fish Commission on Monday to authorize about 800 extra deer and elk tags for out-of-state hunters. "Other states are going to be doing what we’re doing," Arizona Game and Fish Director Duane Shroufe told the Associated Press. "This is going to go through the nation like the flu." The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is having the Oregon Attorney General’s Office review Broomfield’s ruling to see if it has implications here. Advertisement "We don’t know if we should be worried about this now or if we shouldn’t be worried," ODFW spokeswoman Anne Pressentin Young says. "The attorneys are looking at it." Oregon does not limit the number of out-of-state hunters in its general season hunts for big-game species except the general-season bear hunt, Pressentin Young says. For general season bear hunts, non-residents can buy up to 3 percent of the previous year’s total tag allocation, she says. Oregon administrative rules also cap non-resident controlled hunt tags, with 5 percent of controlled deer and elk tags available to non-residents. Non-resident hunters compete with resident hunters in the random controlled-hunt lottery each June, Pressentin Young says. The computer keeps track of the out-of-state winners until the cap is reached, she says. However, the non-resident caps occasionally come into play. A review of this year’s controlled-hunt tag allocations shows that non-residents hit their 5-percent caps on a handful of popular elk hunts in places like Steens Mountain, the Starkey Unit and in Malheur County. A few muzzleloader and bow hunts also see the non-resident numbers creep toward the cap, and a few small antlerless deer and elk hunts also hit the cap in 2004. In all, though, the numbers of non-residents versus residents in Oregon’s woods each fall are low. Of the about 14,000 hunters to draw antlerless deer tags in Oregon for 2004, only 61 are non-residents. Three percent of Oregon’s 71,717 controlled buck deer tags are going to non-residents this year. Just shy of 3 percent of the 65,178 controlled elk tags are going to non-residents this year. The decision stems from the case Montoya versus Manning filed last July. Reach reporter Mark Freeman at 776-4470, or e-mail [email protected] Mail Tribune Home Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life Opinion - Politics | AP News | Archives | Site Map E Southern Oregon | Classified Copyright © 1997-2004 Mail Tribune. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions Website Feedback ADVERTISERS A D V E R T I S E R S SPECIAL SECTIONS Auto Finder Job Finder Home Finder Joy Magazine Homelife Magazine Tempo Readers' Choice Real Estate Showcase Since We Asked Outdoor Journal Moving to Southern Oregon? Volunteer Opportunities