re: Best Deer Hunting WMA in Louisiana

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With all of the funding coming from license sales the state will never do anything to decrease sale numbers.

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Just to hammer home how wrong this assumption is ("all of the funding coming from license sales"), here is some math for you baws. This is all based on 2017 license sales in LA. I've only done the breakdown on Basic Hunt, Big Game, Bow, Primitive, Duck, and Turkey for Resident and Non-residents; Senior Hunt/Fish; and LA Sportsman.

In 2017, there were 551,024 resident licenses sold. That generated a whopping $6,785,701. Nonresident sales were 9,065 licenses, bringing in $868,861.

So that's $7,654,562. Just for the major hunting licenses (there are 105 different licenses/permits sold in LA for hunting, fishing, and trapping).

So is that REALLY alot of money? That is roughly 32% of the total license sales in Louisiana in 2017. Tack on 376,945 resident basic fish (~$3.58 million) and 229,436 resident saltwater (~$3.21 million), and you have 67% of all license sales in LA, totalling roughly $14.44 million in revenue.

We don't have a ton of money coming from license sales. Not by a long shot. And fishing revenue isn't getting used on WMAs, and all of the funding from hunting license sales isn't being used on WMAs. But thinking that we are just going to increase the cost of the WMA permit to $100 or $200 and improve WMAs is idiotic. The sales would drop off significantly, and the increase in funding from that permit would be negligible.