Credit Tom Koerner/USFWS
Every year, hunters set out in search of their quarry. Some will be successful, but inevitably, some will be unable to fill their tag, for a variety of possible reasons. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) is constantly striving to make sure that the number of tags they sold isn't one of those reasons.
"There's a lot of information that goes into the number of licenses that are available for a given species in a given area each year," said Laramie region wildlife coordinator Embere Hall. "The information that informs this process comes out of three buckets, if you will. So the first is information that the department has on the population itself."