Spring bear shot down again. Shocking...

[vandeman17]

OLYMPIA - The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has once again rejected petitions to reintroduce a spring black bear hunting season for the upcoming year.

https://www.yoursourceone.com/columbia_basin/spring-black-bear-hunting-season-denied-again-by-washington-fish-and-wildlife-commission/article_48780cb4-51a6-11ee-87a0-fbe14a72ebcd.html

[Special T]

The important part of the meeting is not represented in the article. WDFW staff have asked for guidance as to what the Commission felt was acceptable, or what kinds of metrics did they value. The Comissioners are playing a game where they dangle the disingenuous opportunity of a management hunt. By not providing guidance they make staff run in circles to find something acceptable and shoot it down anyway.  Commissioners are not honest brokers in this conversation.

[hunter399]

Yup ,pretty shocked right now.
Why didn't any of the petitions address tree damage.
Our commission says there is no need for the hunt.

[bearhunter99]

Unless WA sees a change in leadership (i.e. the Governor) and representation on the commission that actually holds scientifically sound game managment in regard there will never be a spring bear season again.  Feelings have no place in game management discussions....

[jrebel]

Once side show Bob get in the governors house….guaranteed we will never see a spring season again.  Be luck to keep the fall season. 

[AlpineMuley]

We should all ask for our money back for spring bear points.  The total bill will probably shock them.

[Timberstalker]

Once side show Bob get in the governors house….guaranteed we will never see a spring season again.  Be luck to keep the fall season.

Bear and cougar season will be gone in the next 30 days.
Elk will be permit only.

[hunter399]

Once side show Bob get in the governors house….guaranteed we will never see a spring season again.  Be luck to keep the fall season.

Bear and cougar season will be gone in the next 30 days.
Elk will be permit only.

Probably 🤔

[MADMAX]

Its been a great time in the great state of Washington
The fat lady is singing

[hunter399]

Once side show Bob get in the governors house….guaranteed we will never see a spring season again.  Be luck to keep the fall season.

Bear and cougar season will be gone in the next 30 days.
Elk will be permit only.

No way man!!!
Oil tag for bear ,cougar,now.

[Westsideelkchaser]

Only way for minimum chance of change is no one buys licenses in Wa…go hunt your dream out of state hunt if you can’t afford it I hate to say eat a year and see if anything changes otherwise Wa will not be a huntable state very soon unless all you want is yotes and they will end that to as fast as they can

[HillHound]

Once side show Bob get in the governors house….guaranteed we will never see a spring season again.  Be luck to keep the fall season.

Bear and cougar season will be gone in the next 30 days.
Elk will be permit only.

No way man!!!
Oil tag for bear ,cougar,now.

He is not kidding. It is happening right now. The commission is actively looking to close all bear and cougar hunting in Washington. They have the votes to do it just like they did for spring bear. It doesn’t matter what our educated biologists say because we have a bunch of old women who have never been off a established trail who know better and are the only ones who have a vote. Everyone I try to tell looks at me like I’m a conspiracy theorist but mark my words if these commissions don’t get in a plane crash together or some other Act of god we Will not be hunting bears or cougars next year in Washington. Granted over the next 10 years we will all kill way more bears and cougars… but they will be in our yard trying to eat our pets or kids and we will have to call WDFW to come get their dead animal off my property. They won’t let you keep an animal taken in the act of deprivation so all this meat will now go to the land fill. YAY commission, you will succeed in closing predator season, taking all revenue associated with the tags sold away, taking meat out of peoples freezers…. And there will still be twice as many bears and cougars killed as there are now. Game warden’s are going to be spending their entire week’s running from one deprivation case to the next shooting cougars and bears all day long. I’ve seen over 12 bears this year. Can’t imagine it after just a few years of not hunting. I wonder how their tune would chance if Smith or Rowland had a grandchild killed by a cougar or bear….. i’m sure they would just love to sit there and watch in ahh at the beauty of nature. And remember all these predators have just as many rights as people so she would have no way to try to stop that cougar from eating her grandchild. Our commission has some serious mental deficiencies. There are the same people who think they can go up and pet the bison in Yellowstone. They cannot differentiate between domesticated animals in the wild animals and have no business being in the position they’re in.  I love this state. Own a business, House, cabin, multiple properties. If they take our bear and cougar hunting away I will be looking at selling all and leaving this once great place to live.

[GWP]

Only way for minimum chance of change is no one buys licenses in Wa…go hunt your dream out of state hunt if you can’t afford it I hate to say eat a year and see if anything changes otherwise Wa will not be a huntable state very soon unless all you want is yotes and they will end that to as fast as they can

That would just be used as proof ‘No one is hunting any more. Shut it all down now’. 

[boneaddict]

I wouldnt be surprised if they yank Fall bear shortly.

[nwwanderer]

And the result is a decline in everything they claim as precious.