UNDIVIDE WASHINGTON STATE

[chuck270]

If you want to make both sides open to all then make the whole state primitive weapons only, Traditional re-curve bow and black powder, round ball and flint only.  Season from September 1 to December 31.  Your limited draw hunts would be to allow you to use modern firearm/Compound/Inline for a fix time period.   

[92xj]

Horses and Spears, permit required for self bows only. Nothing more.

[BUTTER]

Want to fix Washington quit allowing more hunters than elk to hunt. This state needs to go 100 percent draw for every unit. This is a fact and needs to happen now. We have become spoiled in having the opportunity to hunt everything every year. Fact is washington doesnt have the animals or the land to allow this. I am not saying every unit  should be some weird 10 pt unit but why not one every three or so or some sort. We need to push this now

[Duckslayer89]

Want to fix Washington quit allowing more hunters than elk to hunt. This state needs to go 100 percent draw for every unit. This is a fact and needs to happen now. We have become spoiled in having the opportunity to hunt everything every year. Fact is washington doesnt have the animals or the land to allow this. I am not saying every unit  should be some weird 10 pt unit but why not one every three or so or some sort. We need to push this now

I would push for predator control first. If I saw proper managment of predators I would go for a possible draw system

[Jonathan_S]

Want to fix Washington quit allowing more hunters than elk to hunt. This state needs to go 100 percent draw for every unit. This is a fact and needs to happen now. We have become spoiled in having the opportunity to hunt everything every year. Fact is washington doesnt have the animals or the land to allow this. I am not saying every unit  should be some weird 10 pt unit but why not one every three or so or some sort. We need to push this now

Sure would make some people and ALL the wolves happy.  Hunters pushing for a 67% decrease in annual hunting activity.  Sounds like a wet dream for people with an anti hunting agenda too.

[huntinguy]

Want to fix Washington quit allowing more hunters than elk to hunt. This state needs to go 100 percent draw for every unit. This is a fact and needs to happen now. We have become spoiled in having the opportunity to hunt everything every year. Fact is washington doesnt have the animals or the land to allow this. I am not saying every unit  should be some weird 10 pt unit but why not one every three or so or some sort. We need to push this now

Latest data I heard was only 4% of Washingtonians hunt. And that number is falling. Research that I have read, part of the reason is: fewer places to hunt and less time to hunt.
I don't recall the state... Michigan maybe, as an example, said hunting as we now know it will be extinct by 2050.

There needs to be something done. I am not sure restricting hunting to a permit only thing would be good.

IF there was a state wide tag, like there was when I started hunting, you only had a week.... 10 days. That meant you wouldn't hunt both sides, you as a hunter, had to pick one. I wish the game department would go back to that.

[meatwhack]

The reason for the division was for draw odds on special permits not hunting opportunity.

[.257mag]

If they cared about our draw odds they would have devided this state into 20 sections

[SpurInSpokane]

Latest data I heard was only 4% of Washingtonians hunt. And that number is falling. Research that I have read, part of the reason is: fewer places to hunt and less time to hunt.
I don't recall the state... Michigan maybe, as an example, said hunting as we now know it will be extinct by 2050.

I just read about that stat. Probably not original source, but a good read: https://www.npr.org/2018/03/20/593001800/decline-in-hunters-threatens-how-u-s-pays-for-conservation

They discuss the (Wisconsin) prediction from 1992 that there will basically be no more hunters by 2050. However, the primary reasons for their prediction were demographics (aging Boomers) mostly.

[NRA4LIFE]

4%?  I thought that many elk hunters were in the Little Naches from the looks of it.

[baker5150]

Want to fix Washington quit allowing more hunters than elk to hunt. This state needs to go 100 percent draw for every unit. This is a fact and needs to happen now. We have become spoiled in having the opportunity to hunt everything every year. Fact is washington doesnt have the animals or the land to allow this. I am not saying every unit  should be some weird 10 pt unit but why not one every three or so or some sort. We need to push this now

Latest data I heard was only 4% of Washingtonians hunt. And that number is falling. Research that I have read, part of the reason is: fewer places to hunt and less time to hunt.
I don't recall the state... Michigan maybe, as an example, said hunting as we now know it will be extinct by 2050.

There needs to be something done. I am not sure restricting hunting to a permit only thing would be good.

IF there was a state wide tag, like there was when I started hunting, you only had a week.... 10 days. That meant you wouldn't hunt both sides, you as a hunter, had to pick one. I wish the game department would go back to that.

2.4% of the states population were license holders in 2017

7.4 million residents and 182k license holders

https://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/subpages/licenseinfo/Natl%20Hunting%20License%20Report%202017.pdf

[hughjorgan]

Want to fix Washington quit allowing more hunters than elk to hunt. This state needs to go 100 percent draw for every unit. This is a fact and needs to happen now. We have become spoiled in having the opportunity to hunt everything every year. Fact is washington doesnt have the animals or the land to allow this. I am not saying every unit  should be some weird 10 pt unit but why not one every three or so or some sort. We need to push this now

So since you think we should be permit only do you not hunt our general seasons and only hunt when you draw a permit?

It’s hard enough now to draw a permit, if they did change to permit only how would you recruit new hunters that could only hunt every so many years you drew?

[BUTTER]

In not saying a draw system like we currently have the one that isn't working as most washingtons would agree. But say like a west side unit say like maraget  a guy could draw every 3 or 4 years and yes I do hunt wa every year as well as out of state hunts and no i dont want to give up hunting opputunites but if we had a decent drawing system like Oregon I'd be okay with it

[Calvin Rayborn]

I'm for it. 

[7mmfan]

Want to fix Washington quit allowing more hunters than elk to hunt. This state needs to go 100 percent draw for every unit. This is a fact and needs to happen now. We have become spoiled in having the opportunity to hunt everything every year. Fact is washington doesnt have the animals or the land to allow this. I am not saying every unit  should be some weird 10 pt unit but why not one every three or so or some sort. We need to push this now

So since you think we should be permit only do you not hunt our general seasons and only hunt when you draw a permit?

It’s hard enough now to draw a permit, if they did change to permit only how would you recruit new hunters that could only hunt every so many years you drew?

Bears, birds etc... Or do like OR and make archery the only general tag available and everything else permit only? SO you could hunt every year if you wanted, it would just be limited to archery.