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Rem700LR:
WDFW made the Willapa Hills which consists of multiple GMU areas only a 1 bear limit. While all other areas are allowed two tags still. Please tell me how this BS makes any sense. I have 10 cams in the Willapa Hills area and have multiple bear on each camera.


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bobcat:
Yeah I wasn't too happy when I noticed that. All the units I will be hunting have the 1 tag limit, AND they also moved the opening date back to August 15.

BA Mongor:
Makes zero sense. We have so many bears it's ridiculous. If anything they should increase the limit to (3) bears, and we wouldn't even see a dent in the population. The amount of deer fawns and elk calves killed by the bears is incredible.

Not many people get to listen to a elk calf or fawn being eaten alive by a bear or coyote, but I have many times sitting on my back deck. There needs to be a balance, and that balance is heavily shifted to the predators!! For some us that live in the woods and can shoot in almost any direction, we get to see what reality is, and the this corrupt state has no idea what reality is.

It's time to bring things back in check...Just my  :twocents:

Clearcut:
Got only 1 cam currently set up and have 4-5 different bears cruising by. So little bear hiring pressure in my opinion of this unit mixed with how dense it is that it could be 3-4 bear limit for the few who actually spend any time or effort in this and it wouldn’t make a dent. I hunt archery typically every years and I’d say on average we run into 4-6 bears accidentally during that period of time.

Threewolves:
Don't you guys remember this same thing happened more than a couple of years ago? We bitched about it and it was changed. The things that I wrote in about was 15 August start date, why make the hunting regulations more confusing. The traditional start date is 01 August. Don't create more confusion.

For example you are hunting along a GMU boundary, one side is two bear limit, across the road in the other GMU is one bear limit.  One starts on the 1st August the other on the 15th.

1. Those bears are going to cross back an forth across those GMU Boundary's. The bears don't know that they are suppose to stay in one GMU. It is possible for a bear in a one bear unit to cross over into a two bear unit and get killed. This is with in the realm of possibilities. 

2. Is this some kind of state money generating scheme to cause confusion and get other wise law abiding citizens to accidently become law breakers. Is the goal to make the hunting regulations as confusing as the fishing regulations?

I know we are supposed to keep up with all the changes, but why change. I know there are people who want to change happy to glad, but why? I do recall last time this came up I was hunting in an area took a bear, then it hit me, was I in a 01 August area or that other Area? Luckily I was three days past the 15th. But I was paranode. I would have lost my job. I worked in a field where if I made a mistake I would have been terminated. The "I wasn't aware" excuse would not fly.

What's strange is it is only Okanogan and Willapa Hills. I know Willapa Hills has a lot to timber company property to only have a one bear limit.

Also, how many folks remember the year the entire state went spike only for Elk both east side and west side? Change, just to change some thing.

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