Nile feeding station

[sparky512]

While at Oak Creek today looking at all of the elk, I overheard a volunteer saying they closed the Nile feeding station due to poaching and were expecting more elk to show up at Oak Creek.
Does anyone have any info on this?  The volunteer wouldn't offer any additional info when pressed for further information.

[Naches Sportsman]

I heard it was also due to nobody in the Nile contacting the state with property damage claims.

In my opinion, it is a good thing to cease feeding operations, especially with the cat problems and tribal kills.

Those elk can survive just fine without the state feeding them.

[jrebel]

I thought they stopped feeding at the nile feed site many many years ago.....am I wrong, or have they stopped and started many times over the years?? 

[sparky512]

I had heard they closed it down years ago too.  His comments are what started my query.

[hughjorgan]

They were still feeding them as far as I know. I believe it was a decade or so ago one of the members on here came up on some natives shooting elk in the Nile feed lot. Made the news if I remember right.

[snake]

Natives kill elk off that feeding station multiple times every year. We were just used to it, didn't really give it much thought.

[hal]

natives poach every feeding station. Several years ago broke the gate at the wenas station and shot several bulls on the feed pile. did not retrieve all the meat. DNR and wardens do nothing. always been that way.

[7mmfan]

natives poach every feeding station. Several years ago broke the gate at the wenas station and shot several bulls on the feed pile. did not retrieve all the meat. DNR and wardens do nothing. always been that way.

That's because DNR and wardens cannot do anything. Their hands are tied. Need a fed to be involved, and they are the ones that won't.

[Rainier10]

It’s not poaching natives have the right to do it.  The state just concentrates the elk by feeding them so the elk stay out of farmers crops.

It saves the crops but makes it more convenient for native’s and predator’s to get to the elk.

Let’s not turn this into a native bashing thread.

[boneaddict]

There is lots of language involved. Closed areas, the feedlots are still closed to natives.  Nile closed this year for the first time.   Elk staged on one side of the road, legal for natives and fed on the other, not legal.   Lots of gut piles down by the feed, illegal side.   Lots of conflicts with people.  It was not a pretty situation.  As for cutting locks and going into a closed area. I’d think all would be in trouble as I don’t believe the treaty pertains to that, but I could be wrong. Lots of politics

[hughjorgan]

There is lots of language involved. Closed areas, the feedlots are still closed to natives.  Nile closed this year for the first time.   Elk staged on one side of the road, legal for natives and fed on the other, not legal.   Lots of gut piles down by the feed, illegal side.   Lots of conflicts with people.  It was not a pretty situation.  As for cutting locks and going into a closed area. I’d think all would be in trouble as I don’t believe the treaty pertains to that, but I could be wrong. Lots of politics

Which tribe? Muckleshoots or Yakamas?

[Whitefoot]

 

It’s not poaching natives have the right to do it.  The state just concentrates the elk by feeding them so the elk stay out of farmers crops.

It saves the crops but makes it more convenient for native’s and predator’s to get to the elk.

Let’s not turn this into a native bashing thread.

[boneaddict]

There is lots of language involved. Closed areas, the feedlots are still closed to natives.  Nile closed this year for the first time.   Elk staged on one side of the road, legal for natives and fed on the other, not legal.   Lots of gut piles down by the feed, illegal side.   Lots of conflicts with people.  It was not a pretty situation.  As for cutting locks and going into a closed area. I’d think all would be in trouble as I don’t believe the treaty pertains to that, but I could be wrong. Lots of politics

Which tribe? Muckleshoots or Yakamas?

Whitefoot could probably answer that better than I could.  Yakama for sure but Mucks are making inroads.  I don't keep up with it.  THe Mucks bought the Ranch next to me, my neighbors and they farm it.  They do a dang good job.   I assume they are selling the hay to the WDFW, thats what I heard.   

[hughjorgan]

There is lots of language involved. Closed areas, the feedlots are still closed to natives.  Nile closed this year for the first time.   Elk staged on one side of the road, legal for natives and fed on the other, not legal.   Lots of gut piles down by the feed, illegal side.   Lots of conflicts with people.  It was not a pretty situation.  As for cutting locks and going into a closed area. I’d think all would be in trouble as I don’t believe the treaty pertains to that, but I could be wrong. Lots of politics

Which tribe? Muckleshoots or Yakamas?

Whitefoot could probably answer that better than I could.  Yakama for sure but Mucks are making inroads.  I don't keep up with it.  THe Mucks bought the Ranch next to me, my neighbors and they farm it.  They do a dang good job.   I assume they are selling the hay to the WDFW, thats what I heard.

Interesting, they are buying up a lot of land. Kind of ironic the muckleshoots shoot them off the feed lots. They were feeding elk over in greenwater on the tree farm they bought, never heard of them shooting them though

[Buzzsaw461]

 

natives poach every feeding station. Several years ago broke the gate at the wenas station and shot several bulls on the feed pile. did not retrieve all the meat. DNR and wardens do nothing. always been that way.