WDFW wolf meeting lynnwood 10/14

[trapp01]

Wdfw to hold a meeting about recent actions taken regarding wolves in northeast Washington on Tuesday Oct. 14 from 6pm-9pm in lynnwood.


http://wdfw.wa.gov/news/oct0614a/

Who's else is going to be there?

Needs to be more hunters in there.

[JimmyHoffa]

probably why it was scheduled for Oct 14...during mod deer season when a few are getting in an evening hunt and can't make it. 

[rippinlips22]

probably why it was scheduled for Oct 14...during mod deer season when a few are getting in an evening hunt and can't make it.

Oh boy? Great timing!!! Another great WDFW plan!?!?

[baldopepper]

Geeze, I was over here for the Colville meeting and will be over on the Eastside for the Lynnwood meeting.  Hate to think they planned the meeting  when they knew a lot of hunters would be out hunting, but it sure looks suspicious.  Honestly I'm not sure these meeting aren't anything other lip service anyway.

[Skillet]

I'm going to go.  Should be interesting.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Maybe they are going to roll out the new introduction of The Tiger Mountain Pack? 

[baldopepper]

Maybe they are going to roll out the new introduction of The Tiger Mountain Pack? 

Heck, I'd come back from the eastside to see the expression on peoples faces in the room if they tongue in cheek started the meeting with that announcement. Guess a person ought to go to the meeting and stand up and say they'd heard a rumor that one was being established there.

[h20hunter]

I'm going to go.  Should be interesting.

We can swing by The Rock, pound a few pints.....get good and juiced beforehand.

[Skillet]

Well, that's not the worst plan I've ever heard. 
 

[PA BEN]

If you want to talk at the meeting they have you fill out a form at the front door w/your name and what questions you have then they will call you up to the mike. I don't think that there will be to much cat calling at that meeting like the one in colville.

[kevinlisa06]

Hoping to make it aswell


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[splashcaster]

I will do my best to go and will try to bring a few other hunters with me. Thanks for posting this, trapp01.

PA BEN: You're probably right, but it seems strange to make someone write down their questions at the door, prior to the meeting. My questions would vary depending on the tone of the meeting, but I'll try to anticipate ahead of time what they will talk about I suppose.

[CAMPMEAT]

I will do my best to go and will try to bring a few other hunters with me. Thanks for posting this, trapp01.

PA BEN: You're probably right, but it seems strange to make someone write down their questions at the door, prior to the meeting. My questions would vary depending on the tone of the meeting, but I'll try to anticipate ahead of time what they will talk about I suppose.

Lie on the paper you filled out at the door. Just like the WDFW does to us. Then ask what you want, that's what I'd do. Of course, they might fine you or take away your crappy Discover Pass for doing so............

[PA BEN]

I will do my best to go and will try to bring a few other hunters with me. Thanks for posting this, trapp01.

PA BEN: You're probably right, but it seems strange to make someone write down their questions at the door, prior to the meeting. My questions would vary depending on the tone of the meeting, but I'll try to anticipate ahead of time what they will talk about I suppose.

It would be a free for all if they didn't do it that way. Meeting would get out of control with hands up and people just asking questions who already spoke. The game dept. meeting on the new regs. in Colville was a free for all, people stepping on other people while others had their hand up and not getting to speak. They gave 3 min.s a person at the Colville meeting.

[timberfaller]

"Oh boy? Great timing!!! Another great WDFW plan!?!?"

NOPE, that is just NORMAL tactics of government agency's and their fulfilling the "Public Meeting" laws.

You schedule "knowing" when the greatest threat towards your agenda CAN'T attend.

[PA BEN]

 
We recommend these talking points on Washington's wolf management:

Wolves are a keystone predator that plays a valuable and important role in the health of our ecosystems. We strongly support natural wolf recovery, and value their place in our region and our environment.
Wildlife is a public resource and belongs to all the people of the State.
We also understand the need to address and help resolve conflicts between wolves and the people who live and work in Washington’s wolf country. We want to help them successfully coexist with predators back on the landscape. And we accept that at times lethal removal is required for responsible wolf recovery.
But it’s the Department’s responsibility to safeguard wolf recovery in Washington. We the public deserve clear, transparent and timely communications when it comes to wolf management. Especially before the lethal removal of wolves or other endangered species.
Range riders, fladry, guard dogs and hazing can reduce risk of conflict if undertaken with diligence. Either independently or in partnership with the state or conservation organizations, ranchers must be thoroughly using these tools to avoid wildlife conflicts if they knowingly operate in wolf territory.
WDFW needs to create more incentive for ranchers to embrace conflict avoidance measures, including entering into cooperative agreements with the state. As one incentive the state should mandate that lethal wolf removal will not be considered unless the effected rancher has made a genuine effort to avoid depredations.
We believe the state must establish an impartial "referee" that the people can trust who can judge whether a rancher has shown adequate due diligence and preemptive conflict avoidance measures before lethal removal of wolves is considered.
We strongly want long term wolf recovery to work for people, wolves and all of Washington’s wildlife. Thank you for allowing the public to provide testimony on this important matter.

[PA BEN]

That meeting was a joke.

Were you there? Tells us about it.

[Yelper Guy]

C'mon, don't be shy.

[buckfvr]

Like it or not, the out come has been pre-determined............

[Birdguy]

First off thank you for going and speaking on behalf of hunters. I appreciate someone who can go and do that as I get too pissed off reading the comments at the end of news articals, there is NO WAY I could sit in a room full of people who do not understand what they are talking about while researching how great wolves are from there condo or apartment. Knowing they have never been on a hike in the "mountains" let alone camped or hunted, makes it even worse.
    Yes, we are in for a fight, no it will likely not be finished in the next 30 years. No, some people will never understand the impact. And yes, most likley our WDFW will become the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Management, as we will will have no game to be hunted just enough to feed the predators and when the food gets tough to find the departmanet will be called in to trap and relocate whatever ate Fluffy and Spike, to some other place (rural eastern WA). Since we cannot buy licenses for animals we can no longer hunt we will just be taxed as property owners in the state to fund this department so we still pay.

[PA BEN]

Believe me it was tough to sit there. I was the last one to speak

Thank you from the east side. 

[Landowner]

Believe me it was tough to sit there. I was the last one to speak

That had to be pure agony.  I could just hear the Birkenstocks squeak. 

[bigmacc]

Thankyou trapp01

[ribka]

Believe me it was tough to sit there. I was the last one to speak

Thank you from the east side. 

Another big thank you

Know it was not easy

[PA BEN]

http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/outdoors/2014/oct/17/hunters-tell-it-it-lynnwood-wolf-management-meeting/