Inslee meddles with wolf management

[Practical Approach]

This is ridiculous.  Stick with climate change.

https://komonews.com/news/local/inslee-seeking-changes-in-how-the-state-deals-with-problem-wolves-in-ferry-county

[KFhunter]

Cows fart and change the climate, so wolves kill cattle for climate change see?

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[Practical Approach]

Cows fart and change the climate, so wolves kill cattle for climate change see?

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Thank you for clearing that up.  It all makes sense to me now.   

[pianoman9701]

Inslee knows from where the big contributions to his campaign come. Animal rights activists and their orgs, anti-gun billionaires, green new deal supporters. He's so far left he makes Bernie look moderate. This is not good.

@bigtex You're going to see a lot more sheriffs taking predator management on as this idiot politicizes wildlife management.

[Fl0und3rz]

What a doofus.

[bigtex]

Inslee knows from where the big contributions to his campaign come. Animal rights activists and their orgs, anti-gun billionaires, green new deal supporters. He's so far left he makes Bernie look moderate. This is not good.

@bigtex You're going to see a lot more sheriffs taking predator management on as this idiot politicizes wildlife management.

I don't disagree, and as long as they do it responsibly I think they'll be ok. But if they start popping every cougar they see I think we'll swiftly see change in the law from the legislature. It wasnt until this year that sherriff's even realized they had this authority.

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[Special T]

This undermines all the work done by the department, the stakeholders, AND the MILLIONS of dollars spent on a mediator to come up with a compromise. Negotiations and compromises can only be had between good faith actors.

Does anyone think all parties are operating in good faith?

[KFhunter]

Inslee just declared war on rural Washington

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[pianoman9701]

 

[Practical Approach]

Its a good thing he only needs a handful of west side counties to win his reelection. 

[pianoman9701]

That's a bad thing, proven time and time again. 

[Crunchy]

He should stick with something he knows a little bit about..  Plastic straws.  Why not leave predator management to the experts.

[Skyvalhunter]

Why doesn't this guy do the job he was elected to do and let the professionals that deal with wildlife on a daily basis do theirs!!

[Ridgeratt]

And that would be?

[idahohuntr]

The full letter:
https://www.governor.wa.gov/sites/default/files/Letter%20to%20Director%20Susewind.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

The message is pretty clear: Don't kill wolves that eat cows on federal lands...work with federal land managers to minimize overlap between grazing cattle and wolf habitat (i.e., don't have cattle grazing allotments in prime wolf habitat).

If the State isn't going to reduce the wolf population, then I'm in support of reducing the cattle conflicts that result in WDFW resources being expended on mitigating private interests.  Too many bigger things for WDFW to be focused on for hunters and anglers than wasting time on super political/controversial issues that the Governor will meddle in.  If that approach results in widespread poaching of wolves by locals...I'm fine with that.  It will be the outcome of the Governors policy.