WDFW wolf meeting lynnwood 10/14

[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/