Wyoming Landowner Tags
Wyoming gives qualifying landowners an ordinary limited-quota hunt-area license, drawn first against the normal quota rather than out of a reserved share. The threshold is 160 contiguous deeded acres in the hunt area applied for plus 2,000 animal-use-days per species. Nothing is sellable: there is no voucher, and only the landowner or immediate family may hunt the license.
Checked against Wyoming Game and Fish Department rules, October 20, 2026. Where the rule is silent or its sources disagree, the line says so.
Landowner Licenses
contiguous, deeded and other tests apply
same as any hunter
Hunting Your Own Land
A landowner in Wyoming needs the same license and tag as any other hunter to take big game on their own property. The programs below change who gets a limited tag, not whether one is needed.
Landowner Licenses
Landowner Licenses (WGFC Chapter 44 section 8)
contiguous and deeded tests below
drawn with everyone else
out-of-state owners qualify
Who Qualifies
| Species | Antelope (Pronghorn), Deer, Elk, Turkey (No landowner license for moose, bighorn sheep or mountain goat.) |
|---|---|
| Acreage test | 160 contiguous deeded acres in the hunt area applied for plus 2,000 animal-use-days per species; there is no agricultural-use test, and land subdivided in order to generate licenses is ineligible.2 |
| Land test | ✓ Contiguous✓ Deeded✗ Agricultural use within the hunt unit |
| Who may hunt it | The landowner applicant or immediate family only. No lessees, employees or guests. |
| When to apply | Same as the public draw: elk Jan 2 - Jan 31 (nonresident) or Jan 2 - May 31 (resident); deer and pronghorn Jan 2 - May 31. The access code is mailed in December. |
What You Get
| The tag | An ordinary limited-quota hunt-area license, drawn first against the normal quota and issued without a draw unless landowner applications exceed the quota. Maximum two big game per species per parcel per year, and maximum two total pronghorn + deer + elk per applicant. |
|---|---|
| Transfer or sale | No. No voucher mechanism exists, so no transfer or market is possible. |
The current adopted Chapter 44 is dated Jul 15, 2026 and is signed by the Commission president, so the 2026 amendment is in force. Section 8(b) says resident or nonresident landowner license applicants or their immediate family members may be issued landowner licenses, drawn first in each respective resident and nonresident drawing. SF0015 (2026), which would have let the Commission limit landowner licences in a limited-quota hunt area, failed introduction in the Senate 9-22 on Feb 9, 2026 and is inactive.
New for 2025–26: The current Chapter 44 was adopted Jul 15, 2026. SF0015 (2026) failed introduction on Feb 9, 2026, so no landowner licence limit was enacted.
General Season or Limited Draw?
Resident general deer and elk licenses sell over the counter from July 16; general and limited-quota licenses are otherwise drawn Jan 2 - May 31. There is no nonresident OTC: nonresident elk is either a region general license or limited quota, and nonresident deer is by lettered region, with 40 percent of nonresident deer and elk set aside for special-fee applicants. Hunt areas are grouped into regions, and a nonresident region general license is valid in any hunt area in that region that is not totally limited in quota.
Per-unit classification: Species season regulations (Chapter 7 is elk) plus the Hunt Planner hunt-area tables - read the license type and limitation columns. Final quotas are set in April and posted May 1..
Check a parcel on the map →
Click the ground or paste a listing's coordinates: the unit for every species (333 Wyoming units mapped), and whether the acreage clears the floor.
Wyoming draw odds →
Every species, unit and hunt code, with the odds at each point level, fees and deadlines.
Things That Trip People Up
- Wyoming is one of the clean cases for a point-in-unit lookup: landowner licenses are genuinely hunt-area based.
- The 160 acres must sit in the hunt area applied for, so acreage in an adjoining area does not count.
- Animal-use-days are a second, non-acreage test, so acreage alone produces false positives.
- No enrolled-property list exists, so enrollment cannot be confirmed from open data.
Sources
- 1. Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · WGFC Chapter 44, Landowner Licenses · retrieved 2026-10-20
- 2. Wyoming Game and Fish Commission · WGFC Chapter 44, Regulation for Issuance of Licenses, Permits, Stamps, Tags, Preference Points and Competitive Raffle Chances (current adopted version, dated Jul 15, 2026) · retrieved 2026-10-20
- 3. Wyoming Legislative Service Office · SF0015 (2026), Landowner hunting licenses-limitation: bill status · retrieved 2026-10-20
- 4. Wyoming Game and Fish Department · 2026 Wyoming hunting handbook · retrieved 2026-10-20
- 5. Wyoming Game and Fish Department · Wyoming Hunt Planner · retrieved 2026-10-20
This page summarizes agency rules for orientation. The statute, commission rule and the current year's application booklet govern; check them before buying land or applying.