WDFW NOT Closing ~15,000 acres of public land to hunting!

[fireweed]

They WDFW tried this in 2015 and WE here on this forum stopped it (Thank you) But now they are trying again!  They proposed to close all public land in the Margaret hunting unit to general hunting.  They want to put it in the Loowit (which is closed to all hunting except special elk/goat permit).
Why?  Because of hunter "confusion".  And they say people don't hunt there anyway (which is bull)  The area is good for deer and becoming very popular for bear.  But because it is rugged, folks don't go in there and shoot spike bucks, so no high harvest numbers.

Give me a break.  This is the USFS wanting to close the Monument to hunting and ultimately make it easier to be a national park..  Closing the Mount St. Helens area to hunting. 

They are taking comments right now but the issue is buried in the elk area descriptions section.  Be sure to DISAGREE and comment keep public land open to hunting.

https://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/regulations/season-setting

[JoeVon]

Thanks for getting this up here.   Wdfw did a pretty good job of tucking this away!   Also, they have it under the boundary description tab as well as the elk.

[Buckhunter24]

Sneaky buggers I will make a comment as well

[KFhunter]

64% agree, due to the way they worded the question. 

[RB]

64% agree, due to the way they worded the question.

 

Sorry guys I did not know this and hit the agree button on the survey because it sounded "reasonable" on the survey

[duckmen1]

It is a beautiful area for sure. If does suck that they are trying to take it away.  But laughing a little cause now I know a few that will have to actually find there own area and stop mooching of my knowledge. 
But in all seriousness beautiful country.

[MADMAX]

Following Weyerhaeuser I see
Surprised they aren’t asking to have a $400. pass or permit instituted

[jbeaumont21]

I voted against it when they sent it out by email a while back. I went and voted against it now.  Doesn't seem to be a limit to how many times you can comment so maybe we all need to do it several times. 

[Alan K]

It's BS they lump several items together. They throw a couple carrots in there with a real turd . Every individual item should have agree/disagree/neutral.

[cougforester]

Man just feels for the last couple years we've been getting hammered on opportunity everywhere. Less tags, shorter seasons, less places to hunt. Hard to keep track of all the battles we have to fight.

[highside74]

I went back and changed mine from neutral to disagree and added a comment

[cougforester]

It's BS they lump several items together. The throw a couple carrots in there with a real turd . Everything individual item should have agree/disagree/neutral.

I said this in the comment section probably 6 or 7 times.

[Jake Dogfish]

Can’t get past this question:

What is your age?
Under 18
26-35
46-55
66-75
Prefer not to answer

I prefer to answer.  Nice survey wdfw!

[JoeVon]

64% agree, due to the way they worded the question.

 

Sorry guys I did not know this and hit the agree button on the survey because it sounded "reasonable" on the survey

You can go back to the survey and change your answer.

[andersonjk4]

For those who are curious this is the comment name: WAC 220-410-050 Game management units (GMUs) boundary descriptions—Region five.