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WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« on: August 06, 2016, 11:29:46 AM »
WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #1 on: August 06, 2016, 11:33:50 AM »
Oregon season runs all year long and Oregon is taking a much larger number of cougar than Washington!
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #2 on: August 06, 2016, 11:39:53 AM »
Washington season is much shorter and Washington is allowing far fewer cougar to be taken in each zone. Maximum of 970 cougar can be taken in Oregon. Maximum of 261 cougar can be taken in Washington. Oregon zones with targeted cougar removal in addition to regular season harvest are showing significant growth of elk and mule deer herds.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #3 on: August 06, 2016, 11:54:44 AM »
Go figure, a state that manages their game (at least one species) better than WA :chuckle:

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2016, 11:57:33 AM »
Does Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2016, 11:59:03 AM »
Wish out season was open last week....would probably have a huge cat and a huge taxidermy bill.   :tup: :chuckle: :chuckle:  Now I won't see another cougar for 39 years. 

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #6 on: August 06, 2016, 12:20:41 PM »
Interesting for sure.

Looks like OR wants to harvest about 16% of it's population annually (based on the estimates given) vs. WA at 13%.

Curious as to a few variables:

What were the antlerless seasons prior to and after the cougar reductions?
What were the environmental conditions prior to and after the reductions?
What time frame were the reductions done over, and how often were they/are they to be repeated?
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #7 on: August 06, 2016, 12:50:48 PM »
Does Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?

No to both. 
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #8 on: August 06, 2016, 01:01:04 PM »
Does Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?

No to both.

Are quotas routinely filled?
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #9 on: August 06, 2016, 01:08:44 PM »
Does Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?

No to both.

Are quotas routinely filled?

In WA some are filled, some are not, but a year round season would likely cause more quotas to be filled.

In Oregon I don't know how many quotas are filled, it may say, I didn't notice. I did see where they said that the targeted cougar removals are in addition  to hunting season harvest. They removed a large number of cats in addition to the hunting harvest to increase the elk population. It says elk calf survival has doubled and herds have increased!

Of course most of us already know this is how it works, but agencies don't seem to possess that knowledge.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #10 on: August 06, 2016, 01:28:15 PM »
Interesting for sure.

Looks like OR wants to harvest about 16% of it's population annually (based on the estimates given) vs. WA at 13%.


While that doesn't look significant at 3% difference you must take into account the numbers WDFraud and Wolves puts out for cougar populations, they are more than likely double their estimates... Just like wolves and bear estimates

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #11 on: August 06, 2016, 01:46:16 PM »
Looks like OR doesn't even come close to filling quotas.  They do harvest about 2x the cats that WA does.  177 to 385 in 2014/15 and 202 to 409 in 2015/16.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2016, 01:56:31 PM »
Looks like OR doesn't even come close to filling quotas.  They do harvest about 2x the cats that WA does.  177 to 385 in 2014/15 and 202 to 409 in 2015/16.

Without hounds there will be more limitations on how many cats hunters take. I suspect they are using hounds for the targeted removals where they are more significantly reducing the cougar population.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2016, 02:02:10 PM »
Washington seems like they are more interested in reducing the hunter and fisherman numbers.

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2016, 02:11:02 PM »
Washington seems like they are more interested in reducing the hunter and fisherman numbers.

Seems that way at times, doesn't it?
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #15 on: August 06, 2016, 09:10:04 PM »
Cougar season is year around in Oregon too.
Jan 1st - Dec 31st too.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #16 on: August 16, 2016, 03:25:20 PM »
The Oregon cougar plan also used the government hunters from the Dept. of Agriculture. They went to several private ranches and ran cats with the hounds and killed many cougars all over the Ukiah and Heppner units. A friend of mine is an outfitter in the Ukiah unit and he has seen drastic improvements in elk numbers. On one of his ranches alone they killed 12 cats. That was just one of several of his ranch properties. The numbers of cats killed was staggering, It was hard to believe the numbers.

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #17 on: August 16, 2016, 05:02:13 PM »
The Oregon cougar plan also used the government hunters from the Dept. of Agriculture. They went to several private ranches and ran cats with the hounds and killed many cougars all over the Ukiah and Heppner units. A friend of mine is an outfitter in the Ukiah unit and he has seen drastic improvements in elk numbers. On one of his ranches alone they killed 12 cats. That was just one of several of his ranch properties. The numbers of cats killed was staggering, It was hard to believe the numbers.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #18 on: August 16, 2016, 11:11:16 PM »
I hope WDFW allows cougar trapping at some point...

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2016, 09:01:17 PM »
Oregon non resident tag $15.50.   Washington $222.00. Way more incentive to buy one in there state.  :twocents:

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2016, 09:03:07 PM »
Oregon non resident tag $15.50.   Washington $222.00. Way more incentive to buy one in there state.  :twocents:

Wow, so their non resident tag is cheaper than our resident tag.  Stupid wdfw.  Maybe if they werent blowing so much money on this whole wolf b.s. they wouldnt have to charge us so much for everything

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2016, 05:15:58 AM »
Our Current State of Affairs
WDFW has swallowed the Weilgus recommendation for cougar management. They don't want to kill many cougar, they think they will self regulate, that is true, they will self regulate, but it will be at a high population level that has significant impacts on our state.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2016, 07:07:55 AM »
I have said this many times.  WDFW has their head in the sand on predators.  Either they are plain stupid or they just don't care about hunters.  Cue the passionate defenders of WDFW who will say oh it's an apples to oranges thing.  No it really isn't.  If you truly care about the future of big game hunting and increasing hunter opportunity you must aggressively manage predators.  Period.

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #23 on: September 11, 2016, 10:50:11 AM »
Our cougar quotas are a joke, at least in my areas(NE)!  I see multiple cats every year and find a ton of sign! From my observations we have a lot of territory over lap or small territory's
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #24 on: September 11, 2016, 09:41:08 PM »
 Doesn't look as though Oregon paid too much attention to WDFW's quack cougar expert at WSU.
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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2016, 09:49:36 PM »
Does Oregon allow hound hunting and/or trapping?

No to both.

You  can run hounds for bobcats in Oregon. Limit 5.

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Re: WDFW needs to look at the results of Oregon Cougar Management
« Reply #26 on: September 11, 2016, 11:06:02 PM »
I heard the Muckleshoot Tribe in Washington State also schwacked their cougars recently and their deer and elk herds recovered too.

 


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