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Cougar season closures
Britt-dog:
I think a lot of people still don’t understand that the commission changed what counts towards the quota this year. Road kill and depredations now count in addition to hunters take. The quotas haven’t changed just what counts towards them. These early closures are the result.
The commission is effectively limiting hunting opportunity. The department isn’t responsible for this, their just living with the new rules like we are. End result is less cats killed, less opportunity for hunters, and more people drop out. The Commission wins.
As far as just choosing any open unit. They take dna samples when you check in your cat. Whether they do anything with it is another question. I won’t risk it. Not worth it.
Loup Loup:
With this change in quota system the majority of the commission has virtually closed cougar to licensed hunters. Still open to paid Black Ops houndsmen.
Another thing this quota system does is the amount of kills that will not be reported to WDFW. Or will be reported to have happens in another unit. Therefore their population model gets even further out of wack by not being able to quantify mortality. It’s a cycle of complete failure. And the resource pays the price of mismanagement.
GASoline71:
Being able to "quantify mortality" is not even within the scope of what the commissioners that pushed this agenda seek. It's another small step in ending hunting period.
Gary
jrebel:
Can a game warden issue a depredation tag that exceeds the quota if a landowner can prove there are to many cats running around their property??
jrebel:
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