WDFW Spring Bear 2022 cancelled!

[hughjorgan]

It’s pretty BS especially since eastern wa is primarily effected by not following the science of providing a spring season. That commissioner would of been the deciding vote.

[time2hunt]

Time to join the tribal hunters I guess.


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[Harbor_hunter]

Letter submitted.  Bunch of BS.

[hunter399]

Would someone please list all of the rules they broke with procedure?

What rules were broken?

That's what I'm asking. Were they required to hear from the GMAC before voting on this? I don't understand this vote at all.

The GMAC is simply an advisory commission. The Commission can essentially do what they want, no matter what advisory commissions or agency staff recommend.

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Hey Bigtex... What do you feel the likelihood of getting legislation passed that would make all wildlife regulations based on the science and biologist recommendations?  I have read that other states are working on this but haven't heard of it here.

The term science has new meanings now. "The science" is now what our government says it is.

Totally agree with science is what they say it is.

[Mr Mykiss]

Jesus. We gave it to em. They didn’t even go for making it illegal to kill sows w/cubs as in Idaho. Just a straight ban on hunting. And they got it.
I will be contacting everyone I can on this one…it breaks my heart for what it represents.

[callturner]

I hate to say this but everyone is crying about this now and they should have been working at it long before now. About 30 years ago I lost my hound hunting and the use of steel traps because people thought it would never pass. Then eastern Wa never had a spring bear and after the closure the only folks that could run dogs were a selected few. Now it will go back to that to take care of the dept's problems.

[GASoline71]

Good. I don’t want people bashing her based on the way she gave her answer.

If you look elsewhere in the video. she tears in to the commission pretty good and tells them they should be ashamed of letting their feelings and opinions override the science.  I'm sure she is about as fed up as we are.  The way Baker asked her the question about spring bear hunts being a "social" hunt makes me wanna puke.  Baker knew damn good and well what the answer was, and her smugness when Stephanie had to answer it was a huge slap in the face. 

Gary

[KFhunter]

I emailed my senator Shelly Short a nice long email laying it all out, complete with video and whatnot.

See what she has to say. I'll post it up when I get a reply.

[boneaddict]

Maybe the gall bladder trade will pick back up. 

[Special T]

The senators that really need an email are those that sit on the Natural Resources committee. They are the ones that confirm appointments. Letters whennyhey are session are most effective. Perhaps highlighting the fact that unconfirmed WDFw comissioners aare the propblem and the Nat Resource folks should call a vote.

[KFhunter]

Copy that, I'll add them to it

[Special T]

Unfortunately the chair is Kevin Van Dewege and his has beenna HSUS Senator of the year many times.

[KFhunter]

I think we're just screwed to be perfectly honest, and have been for many years.

I only bought WA tags to hunt predators, but as our ungulate species declines in the backwoods that's getting harder, you have to hunt the fringes of ranches and private property that still hold deer.  I can walk through my hayfields of alfalfa and another of orchard grass and not see one track in the snow. 

I can toss out a premium compressed bale of alfalfa, throw a 50lb bag of corn on top of that, and then pour a half gallon of deer cane and only see turkey hitting it.  The record deer count was 100 deer in the late 90's

Now I got none, I can't even put a kid in a blind to get a first deer. Thanks WDFW and Inslee.

[dreamingbig]

I am in the camp that 5000 testimonies from hunters wouldn’t have mattered.  They are hell bent to end hunting in this state.  The ignore science and vote with emotion.  They don’t think they have a predator problem unless the problem is we do not yet have enough!  Hunting is spiraling down the drain in this state.


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[trophyhunt]

Maybe there is a good end to all this, when the Wdfw ends hunting for us, we just hunt like the natives do!  What you think?