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Firstgenhunter:
Classifying coyotes as “game” in Washington is a solution in search of a problem — and it’s coming up soon. The department is introducing this change.

This proposal is expected to come before the Wildlife Committee at next month’s WDFW Commission Meeting on April 16, with public comment on the 17th and 18th at 8 AM.
Coyotes are not a species of concern. They are thriving across Washington. There is no conservation crisis here that justifies elevating them to game status.

We already collect data. Coyote harvest information is reported through small game license reporting and trapping data. Managers do have insight into take. If improving data is truly the goal, a more practical step would be requiring harvest reporting from big game license holders, not creating an entirely new classification.

Reclassifying coyote will open the door to commissioners and anti-hunting activists currently chomping at the bit to get to work- we anticipate bag limits, shortened seasons, and weapon limitations.

We’ve seen how this can play out. In Michigan changes pressured by anti-hunting groups resulted in shortening its year-round coyote hunting season, creating a closed period from approximately April 15 to July 15. Last year California, Project Coyote moved in on a similar campaign, but the department did not support it and it didn’t move.

This proposal may be coming from the Department, but we know it won’t stay there. Advocacy groups opposed to predator hunting will use it to push for further restrictions. Certain commissioners keep bringing the topic up.
And at a time when Washington is facing budget shortfalls and staff layoffs, dedicating time and resources to redesign management of a thriving predator is hard to justify.
Mark your calendar for the upcoming WDFW
Commission meeting:
April 16 – Wildlife Committee Meeting
April 17 & 18 – Public Comment @ 8 AM
This is a very real concern. Especially with this current commission.

Smokeploe:
These anti hunters like to live out on the fringes of city life,  just wait till one of these cute yotes try to grab one of their kids or their cute expensive pets!  Then everything will change.  Coyotes don’t care if the cute mop of a dog costs $1,000 or if it is a little child playing in the lawn all it see is LUNCH!  Coyotes are one of the most adaptable animals on the earth,  they breed almost as fast as rabbits.  These people need to see what a coyote can and will do to children and pets!  Almost all the pictures on store and post offices lost pet is due to being invited to lunch with coyotes.   Let the see the truth about coyotes!

Smokeploe

Ghost Hunter:
Is it the department or the pro-predator commissioners pushing this?  Doesn't make any sense. 

JakeLand:
You can’t fix stupid without a big hammer
My business has gotten so busy in the past 5-6 years because there are so many coyotes in the cities . It’s a non stop calls because of the problem

hunter399:
The constant changes to regulations is a problem in its own.
They don't realize the long term effects it has till it's too late,my opinion.
Let the fawn eaters live, decimated ungulates is all in the plan.

What pisses me off the most, especially here in the NE.
They act like we should be some Yellowstone science experiment.
Yet we have no national park, people depend on wildlife consumption as a daily diet.
Heck I'm eating a mule deer pepperoni stick this morning for breakfast.

Definitely anti hunter crowd has been pushing for this for a long time.
Have no clue on long term effects on all wildlife,not just consumption wildlife but all wildlife.

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