With the apparent winter kill in some parts of the mountains this winter and the soon to be released hungry jaws of many wolves, the issue of point creep is only going to get worse. After all, winter kill and wolves equals fewer big game which equals fewer big game tags to go around.
Saw a story on the news just the other day with the CDOW saying that they are going to be cutting tags as much as 40% for the N.W. corner of the state and I'm guessing that they may also do the same for the S.W. corner being how there's deep snow down that way too, so I assume winter kill may affect the deer and elk down that way as well.