You ok with cougar+coyote stays open.

[buckfvr]

This poll shows exactly why myself and others over here are glad they shut it down.....argue all you want, you just don't get it.   

[Wanttohuntmore]

I see very little problem considering so many other things are open.   The virus will spread in grocery stores.  Think,  7 million people in this state,  probably 2 million still converging on grocery stores and fast food places.   I can't believe the 1000 at most predator hunters would have any noticeable impact.  You'd have to shut EVERYTHING down to really make the virus burn itself out.   That's not going to happen.

[KFhunter]

The difference is no one drives across the state to buy groceries.

If people live eat and contaminate their own pools it can be tracked and mitigated, if they run across the state and contaminate someone else's pool its nearly impossible and it becomes a community spread.

Right now we have a few cases, but its not community spread yet,  its all associated to certain people and can be tracked and mitigated, and has been.  We're still pretty safe in rural areas.

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[Roosevelt walleye]

Closing seasons stops a few people from traveling this direction closing highways is what they would do if they really wanted to be effective.

[Rainier10]

I have a vacation home and land in eastern Washington. I can get here and back on a tank of fuel. I bring my groceries from the west side. I hope to not get in an accident or need emergency services. As long as I don’t I feel like my impact is minimal.

I was out last weekend planting 1,000 seedling pine trees.  I saw multiple vehicles and multiple couples hiking up the road through my property onto DNR land. My thought was they were probably from eburg. Probably do that hike everyday and I’m not going to stop them. One was a family, dad and his four kids. Drove just past my place and parked next to the road. Had a picnic and let his kids through rock, bang sticks even play with one of those styrofoam airplanes. I figured they probably needed some fresh air. Maybe lived in an apartment.

The point is I’m not going to be the buzz kill the enforces the stay at home rules.

If you absolutely have to get outside, do it. If there is a penalty take it. Some of us do it with speeding, turn signals or seatbelts all things that keep us and others safe but we disregard the rule.

Make your own decision and let others make theirs.

I do hope the guys that take predator hunting serious do get out and help our herds, just be smart about how you do it.