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Sad to see explicit cheering of illegal actions that condemned some animals (who had no choice in their selection of species-level biology or geographic location) to a prolonged and agonizing death. The anti's just love to see statements like that, I'm sure. I hope I'm not alone on this site in this regard, and I don't believe I am, but I stand against actions like this. Not the way to work towards resolution of conflict over management of wildlife (which is difficult, I am aware), or convince the broader public that hunters can be trusted in the stewardship of wildlife.
A few weeks ago I'd have been right there with elkboy, but our commission pulled the rug out from under us all, disregarded science, disregarded WDFW's hard work, disregarded the truth, and even disregarded the law....and banned spring bear at the behest of their .org loyalties, orgs whose members have been spiking trees and breaking laws for decades. My G.A.S ran out, my tank is dry. Wildlife management is no longer affected by hunters doing the right thing.
Quote from: elkboy on December 02, 2021, 06:49:39 PMSad to see explicit cheering of illegal actions that condemned some animals (who had no choice in their selection of species-level biology or geographic location) to a prolonged and agonizing death. The anti's just love to see statements like that, I'm sure. I hope I'm not alone on this site in this regard, and I don't believe I am, but I stand against actions like this. Not the way to work towards resolution of conflict over management of wildlife (which is difficult, I am aware), or convince the broader public that hunters can be trusted in the stewardship of wildlife. So you think "hunters" were responsible for this?