WDFW Offers Reward for info ................wolf killing

[pianoman9701]

It's a lost cause to write any letters or complain. This entire country is being controlled 100 % by the progressives. The Republican party is a spineless, worthless party and now have become the Progressives new party. Our voting people out of a WDFW office or changing a commissioner is a joke. It will never happen. We are screwed, period.

Getting our elected officials involved is not a lost cause. Throw up your hands if you want to CM, but I won't. 

[buckfvr]

Man they want a poster child for the wolves...........THIS STATE SUCKS  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WDFW is a huge disappointment any way you look at them.....this only makes it worse.  Will there be 22.5k on the table every time a dead wolf surfaces   I hope they start finding dead wolves all over the place.........serve them right.  WDFW has turned their back on the hunting community .  I say no support, no co-operation of any kind. 

Its time to flood the governors office with hate mail.   

[CAMPMEAT]

pman,

I don't give up, it's just getting a politician to get off their high horse and do what WE elected them to do. This whole entire system needs to go and get these career politicians out of office, NOW ! To me, they do not listen to US, they listen to money, ie, Conservation Northwest, Humane Society and all these other deep pocket liberals.

Campmeat

[pianoman9701]

pman,

I don't give up, it's just getting a politician to get off their high horse and do what WE elected them to do. This whole entire system needs to go and get these career politicians out of office, NOW ! To me, they do not listen to US, they listen to money, ie, Conservation Northwest, Humane Society and all these other deep pocket liberals.

Campmeat

I agree with you regarding the WDFW. That makes it all the more important to contact your elected officials and get them going on these kind of things.

[kodiak 907]

 

[Gringo31]

I emailed this to the Wildlife Commission, copying my state senator, Don Benton. I forwarded the WDFW announcement.

"Dear Sirs,

Although I agree that offering rewards for poaching is a highly effective tool for catching poachers, aligning yourselves with anti-hunting/pro-wolf groups to do so is a clear and distinct conflict of interest for the department which regulates and administers hunting and fishing in this state.

Paragraph number four of this announcement indicates that our DFW is working together with organizations which oppose hunting. How can that be? The center for Biological Diversity has opposed responsible wolf management in both Montana and Idaho through civil actions using taxpayer and donated money to sue the government. Likewise, the HSUS has used taxpayer and donated money to oppose management in those states AND indeed, opposes hunting in general. Conservation NW has been a very vocal and active pro-wolf organization, spending donated dollars traveling around our state for years promoting to children in our schools the "benefits" of allowing the Canadian grey wolf to populate our state.

Once the wolf plan goals are met in WA and management strategies are announced, these groups will certainly oppose the DFW's efforts to manage wolves, again using taxpayer money in addition to millions of dollars in donated funds. It will cost our state millions to fight. This is why aligning yourselves with these groups now is not only an obvious conflict of interest, but is unfathomable. I would respectfully request that a retraction of the below news release be written and distibuted, separating our DFW from these anti-hunting and pro-wolf organizations. Any failure to do so will be a further indication to the voters and legislature of this state that our DFW supports and has been influenced and infiltrated by those who would seek an end to hunting in Washington.

Thank you for your consideration of my observations. The courtesy of a specific and detailed reply will be much appreciated."
Pman

 

[huntnphool]

Sorry guys, the WDFW is too far down the slippery slope to change directions now. The only way to change WDFW direction is with a new GOV and the next election is just too far away. We would have to get so organized and make a hell of a racket with a unified voice to get anywhere....

Id be willing to bet that half the people on this site don't vote.

[Gringo31]

Sadly I agree with you......

[Curly]

And half of those that do vote, vote for libs. 

[Curly]

$22,500    I almost didn't read this thread because I thought it was just old news about the $7,500 reward.  And I thought $7,500 was nuts for a reward for killing of a stinking wolf.  

If a human was murdered, the reward offered wouldn't even be close to that...... 

[vandeman17]

This was the deciding factor for not purchasing my spring bear permit.  I am not giving any extra money to WDFW and I am on the fence right now if I am just going to hunt out of state and put the 400 bucks I normally spend here into a out of state hunt.

This is my stance. I will only be bird hunting in wa and buying a deer tag until I draw a permit then I will be only bird hunting and fishing. I will take my money elsewhere!

[jackmaster]

HEY PMAN, on the thread to have a few of the upper echelon from the wdfw removed a question came up about who we would want to take their place, well todd said he wouldnt be welcomed back at wdfw, although i think he is exactly what the wdfw needs, but since he is undecided  i vote for you to throw your hat into the ring, you seem to keep a level head and always speak well for both sides, you seem to always have some good answers to problems and for the most part you seem to look at things from all angles, no clue if a regular joe can get into those positions, hell you probably have to have been through cop training or something, but if they are positions where people run for the spots you should go for it, i know its not POTUS but hey its pretty darn close   

[AspenBud]

This was the deciding factor for not purchasing my spring bear permit.  I am not giving any extra money to WDFW and I am on the fence right now if I am just going to hunt out of state and put the 400 bucks I normally spend here into a out of state hunt.

This is my stance. I will only be bird hunting in wa and buying a deer tag until I draw a permit then I will be only bird hunting and fishing. I will take my money elsewhere!

That's actually part of the problem. Declining license sales mean the anti hunting crowd can justify actions that further erode hunting opportunities. If no one is hunting, who cares if what they do affects it?

We need more hunters in this state and they need to be licensed and voting in this state.

[jackmaster]

i this might get me bombed but oh well, i dont think you should be allowed to vote on any fish and wildlife issues unless you have purchased a hyuntn or fishn license, why should people that have zero to do with huintn and fishn get to vote on things that will affect or change it forever (trappn, baiting, hound huntin) and soon it will be bow huntn going by the wayside.... but why should they get a say in those matters  they shouldnt..... sportsman put tons of money into the kitty and get crapped on at every turn, and then the WDFW side with all the animal rights activists this crap makes me want to puke..... oh and WDFW good luck with someone rattin out a wolf killer  good luck with that........

[pianoman9701]

HEY PMAN, on the thread to have a few of the upper echelon from the wdfw removed a question came up about who we would want to take their place, well todd said he wouldnt be welcomed back at wdfw, although i think he is exactly what the wdfw needs, but since he is undecided  i vote for you to throw your hat into the ring, you seem to keep a level head and always speak well for both sides, you seem to always have some good answers to problems and for the most part you seem to look at things from all angles, no clue if a regular joe can get into those positions, hell you probably have to have been through cop training or something, but if they are positions where people run for the spots you should go for it, i know its not POTUS but hey its pretty darn close   

Funny stuff right there. Boy, would I be a target from then on. No thanks!