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I'm still getting to know people on this site so, when you say "Aaron kicked @$$" the only one that comes to mind is Whitefoot. Is Colockums' name Aaron?Speaking of Whitefoot what was the Native turnout and was the topic of Tribal hunting brought up?Glad to hear it went well and the feeling of a positive and productive outcome.
Well I just got done with the meeting! Me and Colockum we're the only huntwa members there that I know of... Last night it was Me, Colockum, and Luv2Hunt at the palace for dinner... wonder where all you guys were at??? Overall I'm very impressed... It really seems that we got a lot of messages through to the commission and it APPEARED that they are taking it under advisement... here are some stats and suspected changes...Late Swakane archery; this was a huge issue. Tons of ppl spoke about how they disagreed with closing it. And even the WDFW stats showed that the buck harvest has been about the same from 2003-present, but the antlerless harvest has been through the roof the last two years. There was a reported 700 hunters (roughly) last year in swakane. I suspect that they will reopen the late archery season, but make it 3 point minimum and shorten the season by 5 days... Thats only my speculation though.Stevens and Pend Orielle County late whitetail hunts... Tons of public input about how they wanted to make it a 3 point minimum for the late whitetail hunt as the number of mature bucks is way down and with the young bucks breeding does on their 2nd and 3rd estrus cycles the fawn survival rate is extremely low... Youth and Seniors and disabled hunters would still be able to harvest any buck. This issue was probably split 80% for, 20% against if I had to guess. But it seemed that even the commission agreed something had to be done...Another issue was the colockum... Aaron kicked ass and presented his case about how the true spike rule was too much too late and pointed out that the WDFW had to do something that they KNOW will work, not SUSPECT will work as the representative from the WDFW admitted about the true spike rule change. Aaron brought up how the public survey actually favored PERMIT ONLY over the TRUE SPIKE RULE, and how they should consider going to permit only. If not then close down the roads...etcThe Vice Pres of the commision then directly asked Aaron if he would support a year or two long closure for all elk hunting in the Colockum if they decided to do so. Aaron replied perfectly with an affirmative answer that he would get the support. Two other guys also stood up and supported the closure and many in the room agreed.There were other issues brought up but thats all off the top of my head... This meeting was delegated very nicely and was 90% about public input on the new proposals... I was quite happy with the results! We'll just see if the commission actually does something now! If they don't then I truly believe they are worthless. But from this meeting it seemed like they are wanting to do some good things...Michael
Ya bear hunting was talked about and it is STILL opening August 1st... just like in years past... Nobody mentioned anything about the accidental death from that shooting last year...Michael
Quote from: MichaelJ on March 08, 2009, 10:07:11 AMYa bear hunting was talked about and it is STILL opening August 1st... just like in years past... Nobody mentioned anything about the accidental death from that shooting last year...MichaelRemember, these are still the suggestions and nothing is in stone until after next months meeting. Don't put in for vacation just yet.
