Cougar hunting seasons to close Dec 31, 2013 in several areas of the state

[KFhunter]

This is about the same as happened last year so what's the big NEW news?

I was pissed about it last year too, what's your point?

Do something stupid two years in a row makes it acceptable? 

Quite the opposite in this case, the longer they do this the dumber it gets as the predator population continues to grow while the deer numbers decline.

[splitshot]

why not have them year round.  no season is needed.    mike w

[Special T]

The decisions made by the WDFW and the States appointees protect predators PERIOD! IMO we can talk till we are blue in the face but change has to start at the top.

[bobcat]

This idea of killing LESS cougars with the idea that a higher cat population will kill less deer and elk is incredibly stupid! Please correct me if I"m wrong, but isn't this basically what the WDFW said when they tried justifying the shorter cougar season and the limited harvest quotas?

[martin1]

this is ridiculous......... we have two trail cams in 329 about a mile apart and have atleast 3 different adult cats and then one female with cubs we havent had enough snow to even think about tracking them.....but what do you do........

[Curly]

This idea of killing LESS cougars with the idea that a higher cat population will kill less deer and elk is incredibly stupid! Please correct me if I"m wrong, but isn't this basically what the WDFW said when they tried justifying the shorter cougar season and the limited harvest quotas?

That is the way I heard it.  Their cougar plan is based off the study that the guy from WSU did and he concluded a bunch of that nonsense.

[danderson]

335 and 336 are loaded with cats also, problem is we wont be able to harvest any this year after December 31,  I only been hunting for 40 years and have yet to kill a cougar, so I guess it doesn't make much difference to me, except that there taking away my opportunity, everyone that purchased a tag should get a refund !     

[Jingles]

Don't get me wrong I am NOT in favor of the way WDFW is scheduling the cougar seasons but you have to admit it is better than it was 3 or 4 years ago when it shut down mid NOVEMBER But if you are a good ole boy with friends in the WDFW and own any kind of a hound hunt the year away and get called to kill even more when you have filled your tag

[bobcat]

Don't get me wrong I am NOT in favor of the way WDFW is scheduling the cougar seasons but you have to admit it is better than it was 3 or 4 years ago when it shut down mid NOVEMBER But if you are a good ole boy with friends in the WDFW and own any kind of a hound hunt the year away and get called to kill even more when you have filled your tag

Yes you are right. It is an improvement over the way they had it for a short while. They got enought complaints at that time that they changed it for the better. Then a couple years goes by and they use this bogus study to justify cutting the season and the harvest back again. What a joke.