Make your hunt count

How does the Wyoming Game and Fish Department know how many animals are harvested? Game and Fish sends nearly 250,000 surveys to hunters each year asking about their hunting experience, yet most hunters do not respond. How, then, does Game and Fish determine harvest numbers, and how can the public trust the validity of them? Game and Fish uses well-established and reliable methods, but also needs your help to ensure wildlife managers have accurate information to manage your wildlife.

Your hunting calendar: 

January 2 — Applications open for deer, elk and antelope licenses.

January 31 — Deadline to purchase 2026 Super Tag tickets.

February 2 — Deadline to apply for nonresident elk licenses.

Jon Desonier, the Wyoming Game and Fish Department’s Lander Access Yes Coordinator and Game Warden, was named the 2025 Shikar-Safari Wildlife Officer of the Year for Wyoming. 

Applications for Game and Fish camps open Jan. 1

Reflections of gratitude

Reflect on 2025 and prepare for 2026 with Game and Fish Director Angi Bruce in the December edition of her column from Wyoming Wildlife magazine.

The ultimate hunting opportunity

If you win the Wyoming Super Tag, you don't need any preference points to win and you get to keep any points you've already accumulated. Which this purchase, you'll help to fund the conservation and management of big game animals that make Wyoming incredible.