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Quote from: Special T on April 21, 2018, 04:56:37 PMAll isn't lost, but only complaining won't help. The fact is that not enough folks are involved with conservation orgs or with sportsmen advocacy groups. Most are skeptical of the WDFW. I under stand why. Whom do you trust to shoot it to you straight? Do you belong to any kind of sportsmen/conservation group? Do they have some one whom attends local gov meeting in regards to sportsmen issues? If not help out. If they do the help those folks spread the information.The Yakima herd 2 years ago had a bad winter kill. This last winter was super light and elk didn't come down to the lower levels so the herd could be surveyed. We don't know the herds health but should his fall.If your not going to get I evolved in an organization then at a bare min you should start stacking up predators. If you give up on deer and elk buy a cougar tag with small game and rain hot death of coyotes, bobcats and Cougars. 2cSent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using TapatalkI’m involved in the RMEF and the WSB and I comment on the proposed rule changes and have attended the WDFW meetings. On top of that I spent this morning trying to get a bear removed from Kapowsin. I would consider myself complaining about the way things are going and I am open to ideas on how to make change. Is there something more that we should be doing? If I knew where to be and what to say I will be there, let me know.
All isn't lost, but only complaining won't help. The fact is that not enough folks are involved with conservation orgs or with sportsmen advocacy groups. Most are skeptical of the WDFW. I under stand why. Whom do you trust to shoot it to you straight? Do you belong to any kind of sportsmen/conservation group? Do they have some one whom attends local gov meeting in regards to sportsmen issues? If not help out. If they do the help those folks spread the information.The Yakima herd 2 years ago had a bad winter kill. This last winter was super light and elk didn't come down to the lower levels so the herd could be surveyed. We don't know the herds health but should his fall.If your not going to get I evolved in an organization then at a bare min you should start stacking up predators. If you give up on deer and elk buy a cougar tag with small game and rain hot death of coyotes, bobcats and Cougars. 2cSent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G930A using Tapatalk
All the best habitat in the world isn't going to help if an area is in a predator pit. The habitat is fine in most areas, or rather, it's not up to carrying capacity so we need to keep that in the back of our minds (Yes, It's ALWAYS a good idea to improve habitat) but that isn't where the most need is currently. We must have predator control. Higher success rates will draw more hunters, more game means more successful draws. Killing predators and reducing cow/doe tags is how you build herds, once the herd is robust improving habitat can increase the herd even more, but we're a long ways off from focusing mostly on habitat even though it's sexy and leftist friendly to talk about habitat.
Quote from: Mudman on April 21, 2018, 05:59:21 PMWhen the day comes that Wa isn't a Liberal cesspool I will have hope again, until then I just see it for what is.Great. More permits for the rest of us.Hey. Just trying to stay positive.
When the day comes that Wa isn't a Liberal cesspool I will have hope again, until then I just see it for what is.
So you don’t hunt here?
We had record numbers of elk in Yakima county until WDFW went full retard and issued thousands of cow tags for muzzy and rifle. Top that off with otc cows early and late archery. Then big winter of 2016 and all of a sudden we go from like 13k animals to 8k. Well duh!!!! That said, herds will always spike and fall. To say the sky is falling and there's no hope is silly. It's a breeding renewable resource folks.
Can anybody name a unit with increasing elk #'s over last 5-10 years?
It would be easier to draw with fewer hunters, but I believe our future depends on developing and nurturing more hunters. More and more urbanization, less acceptance of hunting.
