i wana cry

[let.it.fly]

yesterday galpster and i went in to one of the spots we hunt to hang trail cams. we go to where we park and a kid on a bmx heads up the trail right before us. i'm thinking that kids are building a bmx track in there. pretty bummed out. well we get up towards the top and find the kids bike laying in the trail, kid is nowhere to be found(i'm assuming he is trying to grow weed) well we get to poking around and noticed all these trees painted and signed, leave this tree, cut this one. i have a sinking feeling this place is going to be developed. its just outside of issaquah, this place was magical. bears in there every day. tons of rubs from last year, losta deer, and close to home. galpster actualy got his first washington deer here. it breaks my heart and i want to cry...

[Hillbilly270]

let it go buddy.  thats why god invented whiskey.  everything will be okay. 

[singleshot12]

I hope you find another close to home magical spot soon, it's hard to see areas like that disappear

[let.it.fly]

it is hard. yesterday i counted over 30 rubs in an hour,

[jackelope]

logging operation coming in? it may not be all bad.

[bobcat]

Who is the landowner?

[Buckmark]

Heck you think it's bad now or going to be bad, you should have lived in that area back in the 70's up till the late 90's, You would not and could not believe how different that area is, my parents still live out there and it just kills me everytime i go out there (Issaquah/Sammamish/cougar/tiger mnt/high point area.

[Skyvalhunter]

Sounds to me like your are is going to be thinned out, so the ones left behind can grow faster.

[let.it.fly]

its is the high point area. i'm hoping that is only going to be thinned. the trees that were marked are big, you know the type of tree people would like to have in there yard.

[bobcat]

Who is the landowner?

[saylean]

Maybe it will just be that much better in some more years,  after it gets thinned out...more brush...


I know how ya feel....I've had a few spots like that too that vanished.

[carpsniperg2]

i am sure you will find some new spots

[Galpster]

The signs on the trees said King County Natural Resources. I believe the land is owned by King County.

It is a really cool spot. I was fortunate to kill my first BT deer there. It has alot of game and will be sad if it goes away.

By the way, the kid on the mountain bike was pretty weird. Found the bike but no kid. Not exactly sure where he went and what he was doing but really strange.

[Buckmark]

Ken bering (?) used to own that or most of that area, bought it around the time he bought the chickens (seahawks) and had plans to develop it into a large housing/golf community, not sure if he still owns it or not?? I think the microsftie type housing community above the pit was part of what he owned and sold it to the developer who built that..
It is very sad what happed to that whole area.

[bobcat]

If it's owned by King County it won't be developed. Maybe they're going to thin it out a bit. That would be a good thing for wildlife. But if King County owns it I doubt if it is legal to hunt there.