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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 465290" data-attributes="member: 605"><h3>Updated lottery process for pronghorn tags has some landowners, hunters butting heads</h3>(KFYR) 9/3/25 Clayton Pederson owns a few thousand acres in southwestern North Dakota where he scopes for pronghorn.In previous years, Pederson could count on receiving a gratis license as a landowner.This year, the process changed thanks to the passing of Senate Bill 2155, and after not being selected for a license, Pederson won’t be able to hunt for antelope on his own property.Under the new law, the allocation of pronghorn licenses is a 50/50 split between gratis and general lottery applicants.“It’s our land, and over 90% is privately held in North Dakota. So, to me, you don’t want to make that divide any bigger,” said Pederson.Sponsors of the bill say its passing was an effort to make the chance to hunt pronghorn a likelihood for all hunters.“Basically, we ran into a situation where people would be waiting over a decade to be drawn for a pronghorn tag in some of these units that had lower pronghorn numbers,” said North Dakota Senator Sean Cleary.Pederson believes this new law will further widen the gap in respect between some hunting advocacy groups, their political supporters and private landowners.“It just proves our point about people living in the city who have no clue about what it’s like to own property, keep it afloat, and do what we do out here. And then all of a sudden, we can’t even access our own land for our own hunting. It’s just—you can’t do that,” said Pederson.Cleary understands that some landowners are upset, but said 71% of gratis-qualified landowners who applied received a pronghorn tag, so the lottery proves that landowners are still favored.Cleary said he wants to see collaboration among landowners and general hunters.Pederson said that he has posted his land, and aside from family, friends and close hunting allies, he will not allow any other hunters onto his land, and he knows other landowners who have done the same.In the most recent lottery, just over 15,000 non-landowners applied for a pronghorn tag. About 5% were chosen to receive a license.Pronghorn bow season has already started. Rifle season starts on Oct. 3 and runs through Oct. 19.</blockquote>

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