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Eastern Elk Management

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time2hunt:
It’s to manage people also we have way more hunter than ever also trying to kill a bull. If you turn it to a open to all season you would decimate your herd.


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nwhunter:
Central Wa elk herds could handle more permits given out but tribal harvest is an unknown number every year so I think that’s a big reason they don’t …YTC has loads of elk and it wasn’t even an option to hunt .. Definitely can’t go back to general over the counter it would be wrecked in one season…

addicted1:
Because people want to hunt every year, even if it means low success and lots of hunters. Versus a draw system that would allow you to hunt every couple years at best.

str8meat:
There’s 1.3 elk hunters for every 1 elk in the state of Washington, we have to set hunters up for failure. That came right from the commissioners mouth. So would it be easy to state they being the department of screw everything up is over selling their elk herds and deer herds? Perhaps since the wildlife is an assets like a herd of black angus cattle are to a rancher, then a loan can be taken out on the asset. So did the state take out loans using the wildlife as collateral? Hence the same regulations for 30 plus years with no change. I know this is far fetched and the regular public will never get the truth out of a government official or state employee. So since the state owns the wildlife, our hunting license and tags are the bill of sale so to speak from the state to possess the wildlife, then how is this not a plausible idea that the state has taken loans out against the wildlife, over selling the herd numbers by not limiting tag sales and we the people get to pay the loans back by non stop license sales and poor regulations setting up failure.  Although many hunters may only get to hunt elk every 5-10 years in other states with draw only regulations, some even longer. So do you want to hunt spikes every year with a otc tag or wait years to hunt an elk? Classic case of what don’t ya want.

trophyhunt:
There is no real management when the tribes can do what they want, and this state is not about to ruffle the (eagle) feathers of the tribes.  Zero limits on deer and elk, and a few bad apples take real advantage of that.   I've always said, OPEN it up to ANY elk, otc or have 500 permits for it.  Once the elk are so far gone, the tribes will be forced to set some rules on themselves.  I'm not kidding at all on this.

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