The Nevada Department of Wildlife, at its recent meeting, established big-game quotas for 2007.

The following is a summary of those quotas:

Total tag allocations across all hunts increased 11 percent from 2006.

Resident mule deer buck rifle tags are up 11 percent from 9,229 tags in 2006 to 10,290 tags in 2007.

Resident antlerless mule deer rifle tags increased from 65 in 2006 to 440 in 2007. Amounts to 577 percent increase.

Resident bull elk rifle tags are up 4 percent from 751 in 2006 to 778 in 2007.

Resident cow elk rifle Tags are up 73 percent from 840 in 2006 to 1,454 in 2007.

Resident bighorn sheep (desert, California and Rocky Mountain) tags are up 11 percent from 175 in 2006 to 195 in 2007.

Resident antelope rifle buck tags are up 6 percent from 1,644 in 2006 to 1,743 in 2007.