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Hunters banding together
Dan-o:
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--- Quote from: Tbar on March 30, 2025, 12:29:34 PM ---The issue is critical habitat is prioritized for agriculture. End the supplemental feeding and have a massive herd reduction maybe to the point of ending hunting in the Yakima herd. It'll only take one winter like 96 to be the end. So band together as hunters to end hunting? Sounds brilliant!
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They don’t really let us hunt the Yakima herd anymore. I am not sure I care much what they do.
Does the banning of transporting bone in quarters apply to everyone including the tribes?
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I don't understand what you're trying to say.
Lots of folks hunt the Yakima herd.
I'm pretty sure that ending supplemental feeding would put a big crimp in that.
dreamingbig:
For archery… The reduction in bull tags and the limited cow tags for has basically made it spike only. I have moved on to better uses of my time.
When you take away opportunities you lose people who use to care and fight for the resource.
kodiak06:
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--- Quote from: huntnnw on March 30, 2025, 09:21:21 PM ---and vehicles will kill more deer and elk every year by a wide margin over CWD deaths
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Exactly. Cars will kill more deer in a 1 year span than CWD will the next 10yrs.
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This is far fetched.
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LOL, a lil research shows otherwise... EHD kills way more deer than CWD annually. Most of my living/hunting has been in CWD positive states. A few of those states have over a million whitetail.
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“Nationally, statewide rates may exceed 1 in 10 animals. In hotspots, rates of 1 in 4 have been reported. In captive deer, rates are much higher. A rate of nearly 4 in 5 was reported in at least one captive herd.”
Does 1 in 10 deer in a herd get killed by cars?
You might be right in the first year in Washington due to incubation periods I guess, but I have a hard time believing that 1/10 deer in a herd get killed by cars.
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Obviously hes pretty convinced he operates on an intellectual level above us, but in this case he completely misses the point. Road kill numbers are high
but road kills don't move into an area and virtually wipe out the majority of the deer. He seems to be saying something like we shouldn't be worrying about cancer because heart attacks kill way more people. In the same way we try to reduce cancer and heart attack deaths, we need to do every thing we can to stop.road kills and cwd. It's not a case of let's just concentrate on the one that causes the most deaths.
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Show the stats to a specific state where CWD has moved into an area and wiped out a deer herd please. I don't think you can due to the disease impacting herds in a slow fashion with no time frame until death. There is new fawn recruitment during those LONG TERM incubation periods. EHD (blue tongue) on the other hand will knock a dent in the deer population quickly in the areas it shows up in. I never said CWD wasn't an issue BUT, the states over reach in how they are handling it is BS. I'm very familiar with CWD and how it's spread, their natural habits will spread the disease. My point is a bill passed that had incorrect information and ignored a scientific fact they actually listed in the bill lol. You're comparing apples to oranges with the DA cancer statement btw.
huntnnw:
--- Quote from: dreamingbig on April 01, 2025, 06:07:09 AM ---For archery… The reduction in bull tags and the limited cow tags for has basically made it spike only. I have moved on to better uses of my time.
When you take away opportunities you lose people who use to care and fight for the resource.
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:yeah: I remember when I use to spend all my vacation time off in this state to hunt. Now its only if I draw a quality tag which has been 5 years now since i have spent a single vacation day in this state. I spend it all now outta state. Sad what this state has turned into
hughjorgan:
--- Quote from: huntnnw on April 01, 2025, 06:51:19 AM ---
--- Quote from: dreamingbig on April 01, 2025, 06:07:09 AM ---For archery… The reduction in bull tags and the limited cow tags for has basically made it spike only. I have moved on to better uses of my time.
When you take away opportunities you lose people who use to care and fight for the resource.
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:yeah: I remember when I use to spend all my vacation time off in this state to hunt. Now its only if I draw a quality tag which has been 5 years now since i have spent a single vacation day in this state. I spend it all now outta state. Sad what this state has turned into
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You might want to at least stay in the fight in your home state; the out of state options are going to get tougher and tougher to come by. Look at the price increases in Utah; bet other states will follow their lead.
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