NE WA Hunting and Game Commission Meeting

[hunter399]

Well from reading the agenda 4pt min is not part of the meeting .And I purposed It back around the Jan 1 along with reduced antlerless permits.They just want comments on anterless changes .From the looks of it everthing will go to Any buck.anterless permits gone.Maybe next year .I will to continue to purpose 4pt min yearly intell it can be done but it needs A lot more support for other Hunters.

[MtnMuley]

I wish all attending the best of luck. I spent many years pleading my case on issues here, with zero positives in the long run.  I finally gave up. Again, thank you guys for sticking with it.

[hunter399]

I see some of the  biologist presentations that will be at one of meetings .When i see there list of goals I think the bottom should be on top that will give max opportunity.

[Boss .300 winmag]

I see some of the  biologist presentations that will be at one of meetings .When i see there list of goals I think the bottom should be on top that will give max opportunity.

Deer management goal number four is ridiculous, I can’t imagine any area in our state is experiencing this. 🤯

[huntnnw]

Ive hunted WA and NE WA to be specific extensively over the last 30 years and last year was the worst I have ever witnessed areas that were almost void of wildlife that just 5 years ago were full of deer.

[Skyvalhunter]

Has anyone talked or know the qualifications of this Sara Hansen? It doesn't seem like to me from her presentation that she is in contact with what hunters really want.

[bearpaw]

The 4 point had improved the hunting immensely in 117 and 121, but certain managers in WDFW hated the rule and were hellbent on removing it.

There is a graph out there that shows how harvest increased under the 4 point rule and how it dropped after managers removed the rule. The numbers prove it was another mistake of WDFW management, the agency that just keeps failing!

If WDFW was a business half the managers would be fired for incompetence and destroying the business!

[bearpaw]

How the heck can any agency mess up on managing whitetails? 

[gramps]

Skyvalhunter....There was an article in the Spokane newspaper Sun. by Rich Landers entitled 'women in wildlife'.  I think she was mentioned in the article.  I don't seem to be able to post a link.

[bowhunterforever]

Spikes have the genetics to be special too. Any whitetail with 2.5+ years of age is going to look pretty special to 95% of hunters

[buckfvr]

"Maximum" opportunity to hunt, not "maximum" opportunity to kill baby deer.  4pt restriction, no change in time line, and like last time, we will see improvement.  Couple that with vastly more opportunity to hunt predators and we are heading in the right direction.  No cat quotas, over the counter spring bear, separate fall bear tag with season opener of August 1st.  All doable, but we're gonna fight over the wolves.

[Utah]

Way to many predators

[Colville]

Does make more deer.  4 Pt rules mostly result in improved quality per kill, not more kills.  Does produce the surpluss.  Remove does harvest, improve predator harvest and the problem is solved. 4Pt rules do not make for more deer. 2 pts breed does, 5 pts breed does. There's no strong evidence that does go un-breed, only that there aren't enough of them.  Not enough is both a hunting and predator problem.... you recognize they'll only remove one of those from the equation.

[Bango skank]

As far as the chewelah meeting...  ive never heard of the northeast washington wildlife group.  I did an internet search for it, expecting they would have a website, and nothing came up.  What is this? How do they not even have a website? Supposedly theyre collecting dues at this meeting, but they seem to be a non existant entity when i try to look them up online.

[stw]

It's funny how the game department planted wolves in Washington to kill everything off and now hunters want to change the  hunting rules and take away doe tags for the youth and elderly people and other opportunitys because of population of deer and other game .  it's the game department fault  wolves and cats killing everything and the game department doesn't want to manage the problem .  I don't see how we the people hunters is the problem the numbers were fine before all the predators got out of control  . just saying it's pretty sad reading how people want to take away hunting .
My friend a Wise man said they planted the wolves back in the States because the government doesn't want hunting and planted grizzlies in the mountains so they can close mountains down to people and hunters because of bear attacks . . Witch looks to be true game numbers are  falling and and people want to close tags or numbers and last hunting season they  closed grand Teton national park for elk hunting do to grizzly bears . Pretty sad the future of hunting