I dont hunt mule deer so ive just been watching this discussion. So far only a couple of your have touched on the issue. Sportsmen need to kill predators.
There are lots of great ideas thrown about but they depend upon the WDFW doing something... Something most of us think they are in inclined to do. So sportsmen need to make it happen.
KFhunter touched on the private ID bounty system with wolves...
So here is a proposal. We need a month or 2 long derby fashioned along the lines of the one held in the NE a year or 2 ago. You earn raffle tickets for coyotes dropped off, and you could possibly work in tickets for those that harvest cougar, and bobcats... team up with some manufactures, cattlemens association, Cabellas, Ranch and Home whom ever for check ins and tickets
The solution is to focus on what you can control, and that certainly isn't the WDFW. 2c
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