WoooHooo!!! Bout time.

Good effort, but he's a poacher. He doesn't care if he had the rights in the first place. Since he was hunting illegally before, what's going to stop him from illegally hunting now? Lock him away for a few years, see if that gets his attention.

The way Montana runs their permit system it might take 37 years to draw a tag !

I'd like to have a few more details on this case. Too many of the non-resident dude's who buy their piece of Treasure State real estate think they have the right to buy a resident hunting license too. Gong! Wrong answer. If you don't live in the state for at least six months and one day each year, you're not considered a resident no matter how much land you own there. I still retain my Montana commercial drivers license but I am not stupid enough to try using it to buy resident hunting/fishing licenses. A person who moves to the state has six weeks to get his plates and drivers license changed but is not considered a resident until after six months. Hardly fair. This was always a problem for me when working there (or any other place for that matter) if I was employed seasonally for the Park Service. Most local cops understood our predicament and simply looked the other way if they knew we worked for the NPS. Of course, this problem certainly does not seem to apply to this clown. He obviously managed to get a resident drivers license years ago and continued to use it to purchase resident hunting licenses long after he left the state. I certainly hope Wisconsin also throws the book at him for using two drivers licenses (I can retain two drivers licenses but only for two different countries - not legal to have a drivers license for more than one state).

Just 35 years? Why not 50 or the rest of his life? That'd be more to my liking.

Hey MaxPower your comment on 50 years or life punishment. The guy is 57 years old and 35 years of no hunting adds up to age of 92 when he will be able to hunt again. I think 92 is life without hunting again.

worthy punishment? hell be dead before he can buy another license so i think so.

This guy should shut up; pay his fine and take up knitting. He got off damn lucky. His big crime wasn't poaching. It is falsely filling out a government form(s) for personal benefit. That my friends is fraud and if uncle sam forms were involved may also be perjury and that is open and shut jail time. Don't believe me, lie on a application for a loan and see who comes to visit.

Ontario SIr; May I humbly disagree. A resident is where you are domiciled, not where you live and there are (sometimes complex) rules between the states to define what is your domicile and where you are "taking up space". You HAVE to be domiciled in a state/territory if you are a citizen of the United States no matter were you live. If you moved out of the country for work reasons with the intent to return to that state, the last state you lived in was your domicile. And you are a legal resident (and I believe should pay taxes to) that state. It can get real complex on how states define domicile between themselves, but overseas resident is pretty clear. You can be domiciled in a state even if you have not been in that state for longer than 6 months as long as you are out of your domiciled state for work, not domiciled in another state and with intent to return to the domiciled state. I (and many friends) had obviously been down this (taxing- pun intended) road before, For example: Engineer John Smith may be in Africa building a dam for years, had property in Montana, keeps a back account in Montana, a dentist in Montana, pays taxes in Montana and maybe has family in Montana still is a us citizen and is domiciled in Montana, no matter where he is "taking up space" Whats my point? You sir may very well be still a legal resident of Montana and entitled to resident tags. Basically domicile is a tax thing and domicile definitions are usually attached to/referenced the state tax code. Any accountants want to correctly me?