Shed Hunting - License Requirement

[pianoman9701]

Require a license for hunting sheds and it'll show up as a line item on our license. Free to start and within a couple of years, a charge. I'm already paying two state fees to hunt geese on public land in SW WA, Discover Pass, among the highest gas and sin taxes in the country, sales tax. All due respects to the OP, but requesting a new permit or fee from the state is like asking a heroin addict if they want a free bump. They'll always say yes. Really, really dumb idea.

[Bob33]

They really need to go to a permit system for sheds. Quality Shed, Bull Shed, Antlerless Shed, Disabled Shed, Youth Shed. Hunters have said they want it to increase opportunity.

[jackmaster]

is there a permit besides the discover pass for people picking brush?? i wont lie and not say it doesnt bother me when i see mini vans crammed with people followed by pickups and then see them loaded with ferns, cedar boughs and anything else they make money off of, and i am telling you some of the poaching comes from these brush pickers, who is gonna stop a truck load of people that cant hardly speak and make them unload all their brush to see if there is a dead animal in there... sorry got off thread... i really think there should be a huge permit for brush pickers anyways, unless they buy a huntn license, all sportsman that buy a fishn or huntn license or both shouldnt have to have any other permits, for brush or antlers or that discover pass

[bhawley76]

Just one more way to keep the working guy and his family out of the woods. I know to many people that cant afford all the tags now. We don't need any more fees.

[pianoman9701]

You have to have a commercial license to harvest anything on NF land for sale. I believe but am not sure that most counties require it on state land. The Discover pass is also required on state land. Pickers work very hard, often in horrendous conditions, for very little money collecting sustainable goods.

[pianoman9701]

Another point to consider is that if people are coming from out-of-state to collect sheds, they're spending money in our state at independent business and paying taxes - gas, restaurant, hotel/motel, sporting goods. We want to encourage tourism at a time when small business is already suffering from reduced business due to new permit fees on private timberland.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Put Tabs on bicycles and I might think about paying for a shed permit?

[boneaddict]

They really need to go to a permit system for sheds. Quality Shed, Bull Shed, Antlerless Shed, Disabled Shed, Youth Shed. Hunters have said they want it to increase opportunity.

DARN it I paid good money for that coffee.......  I didn't need it sprayed out my nose all over my computer

[boneaddict]

Put Tabs on bicycles and I might think about paying for a shed permit?

NOW WE ARE TALKING!!!!   Do they pay road taxes at ALL

[boneaddict]

Someone better tell Antlerking that the bag limit for sheds has been reduced to one matched set per year

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Put Tabs on bicycles and I might think about paying for a shed permit?

Nope.

NOW WE ARE TALKING!!!!   Do they pay road taxes at ALL

Nope.....

[danderson]

 Shed hunting in the feed areas is a joke these days, I assume that's were your problem started, I could see a permit being issued for these places in the future, not for anywhere else, you will never see me shed hunting in one ever again, I found all my sheds this year on public land with no competition.

 As far as I'm concerned when we purchase a hunting licence that should include hunting for sheds, I all ready have a Discover pass/ Northwest Forest Pass and Snow park Permit, we pay our fair share and I don't have any problem with that, what bothers me is that our state has 3 county's that influence the outcome of the state wide voting outcome, don't give them any more ideas,

  The best way to generate income for any resource is a user fee, put a toll on the mountain passes 5 dollars a car, semi trucks get a free pass, Subaru's 10 bucks, we cant out vote them but we can make um pay to play.
 

[westsidehntr]

Please delete this horrible idea of a thread before WDFW hears about it!

[fly4fish]

I see most of you may not have fully understood my thoughts or failed to read what I wrote. I said nothing about a special permit. All I am suggesting is that people have a WA hunting license. I don't think that is a ton of new regulation or a whole new permit scheme. Just thought I would throw it out there. I see now that it is a horrible idea. That's why we come here right; to get the brutal truth?

[westsidehntr]

I think we do understand. We just don't want any new rules regulations stipulations or requirements. PERIOD!!