Stop the Coyote "game" classification proposal

[Smokeploe]

This is nothing but a “Feel good” law the is sponsored by Smith and Rowland and along with  Wildlife  First.  Plus the anti hunters from California!  They want to end all hunting and fishing in the USA!  Sportsmen and Hunter have to band together and defeat these destroyers of Americian sporting!  They want to do the same thing that the Sierra Club did to the forests of California,  they were responsible for the type of forest fires for the last 50 years of uncontrolled fires in California.  This is just another step in stopping hunting on the west coast.  Next will be fishing!  Band together and wipe out these destroyers of out national heritage!

Smokeploe

[pianoman9701]

This is nothing but a “Feel good” law the is sponsored by Smith and Rowland and along with  Wildlife  First.  Plus the anti hunters from California!  They want to end all hunting and fishing in the USA!  Sportsmen and Hunter have to band together and defeat these destroyers of Americian sporting!  They want to do the same thing that the Sierra Club did to the forests of California,  they were responsible for the type of forest fires for the last 50 years of uncontrolled fires in California.  This is just another step in stopping hunting on the west coast.  Next will be fishing!  Band together and wipe out these destroyers of out national heritage!

Smokeploe

It may be a feel good law on its surface. But deep down, this is another attempt at increasing the predator spiral in WA, at the expense of the ungulate herds. Kill off the ungulates and you can eliminate hunting. They're playing the long game and have been all along. It started with the baiting and hounds prohibition in 1996, and has continued with the wolf program, the support of grizzlie population increase, and now coyotes.

[ELKBURGER]

This is nothing but a “Feel good” law the is sponsored by Smith and Rowland and along with  Wildlife  First.  Plus the anti hunters from California!  They want to end all hunting and fishing in the USA!  Sportsmen and Hunter have to band together and defeat these destroyers of Americian sporting!  They want to do the same thing that the Sierra Club did to the forests of California,  they were responsible for the type of forest fires for the last 50 years of uncontrolled fires in California.  This is just another step in stopping hunting on the west coast.  Next will be fishing!  Band together and wipe out these destroyers of out national heritage!

Smokeploe

It may be a feel good law on its surface. But deep down, this is another attempt at increasing the predator spiral in WA, at the expense of the ungulate herds. Kill off the ungulates and you can eliminate hunting. They're playing the long game and have been all along. It started with the baiting and hounds prohibition in 1996, and has continued with the wolf program, the support of grizzlie population increase, and now coyotes.

[Britt-dog]

There are absolutely zero reasons to classify coyotes as a game species except the ability for regulation. NOTHING good comes from that.

[Wanttohuntmore]

Email sent to the commission.   I highly recommend you all do the same.   We have to speak up.

[Humptulips]

I do not see anything specific to coyotes. There is a pre-proposal listed as "Classification of unclassified species". It is in the Wildlife Committee schedule for discussion Thursday afternoon. No public comment in the Committees. You can comment Friday and Saturday in the morning during Open public comment. I plan on listening to the discussion in the Wildlife Committee before deciding on commenting. There is the ability to comment about the CR-101 on this and to date I am the only commenter.
This is a little more than coyotes I believe. I believe they are aiming to classify coyotes, skunks, porcupine and who knows what else. Also, this could potentially be more than a game classification. Species could be put on the protected list. Doubt that would occur with coyotes but a close watch on which species are discussed is warranted IMO.

[highcountry_hunter]

I do not see anything specific to coyotes. There is a pre-proposal listed as "Classification of unclassified species". It is in the Wildlife Committee schedule for discussion Thursday afternoon. No public comment in the Committees. You can comment Friday and Saturday in the morning during Open public comment. I plan on listening to the discussion in the Wildlife Committee before deciding on commenting. There is the ability to comment about the CR-101 on this and to date I am the only commenter.
This is a little more than coyotes I believe. I believe they are aiming to classify coyotes, skunks, porcupine and who knows what else. Also, this could potentially be more than a game classification. Species could be put on the protected list. Doubt that would occur with coyotes but a close watch on which species are discussed is warranted IMO.

They want to classify porcupines? I didn’t know there was any left.

[Loup Loup]

Yea, about 25 years too late for the Blacktailed jackrabbit too. But yet they, (WDFW bios with no wildlife field experience , or sense of historical wildlife populations in Washington, want to “give protection”to coyotes, and I’m guessing Spotted skunks. Because they see photos on this site and others of dead coyotes and spotted skunks, ( among others) and imagine that these species are being hunted, trapped to extinction.
Again, this is what I call “ wildlife management by imagination”.

[hunter399]

Yea, about 25 years too late for the Blacktailed jackrabbit too. But yet they, (WDFW bios with no wildlife field experience , or sense of historical wildlife populations in Washington, want to “give protection”to coyotes, and I’m guessing Spotted skunks. Because they see photos on this site and others of dead coyotes and spotted skunks, ( among others) and imagine that these species are being hunted, trapped to extinction.
Again, this is what I call “ wildlife management by imagination”.

Totally agree
Seems a lot of imagination goes into wildlife management.