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Brain Storming "How to send the DFW the message"
singleshot12:
+ 1 and also if we could elect our own commisioners rather than they chosing their own - - Big Step in the right direction
DOUBLELUNG:
What is the message? What change do we want? We need to agree on that before we try to communicate ...
I want: draw-only for eastern WA deer and elk for all user groups, general for west side. (like oregon)
I want: less harvest of bucks for more escapement and older age classes. (like we already do for eastern elk)
Bet these are not messages we all agree on.
I want: 2/3 of all WDFW employees deployed in the field, rather than 60% in Olympia.
I want: Department of Game separated out of WDFW, and the regulatory part of Habitat Program and threatened and endangered species conservation functions put into Ecology.
I want: every professional employee sent through an academy and commissioned to enforce hunting and fishing WACs (like ID and CO).
I want: ski areas, concert venues and other conflicting uses off wildlife areas.
bobcat:
I had a post typed up saying almost exactly what Doublelung just said. So I won't repeat it. But yes, that is the problem, the "message" is different for everybody. Some people want more quality, some just care about quantity.
I'm with Doublelung in wanting draw only hunting for eastern wa. deer and elk. But most people are not.
That is the problem. Everybody wants different things. The WDFW has a tough job trying to make everybody happy. I don't agree with some of the things they have done, but I also realize that what they are doing is trying to please those who whine the most.
Sporting_Man:
I think that we are far from drawing our wish lists and have perfect hunting opportunities. We have a system of management that doesn't work (problems outside of the hunting community, mostly).
- Wolves, tribal hunting, habitat loss... general public against hunters...
- Commercial and tribal regulations, sea lions, hatchery vs. native, etc. - just to mention a few...
Curly:
I'm not sure how to send the message, but one thing we need to do is flood the commission meetings with concerned sportsmen and get more people to send in letters. The March commission meeting was sad with only about a half dozen hunters/fisherman there and one wolf hugger there for public input.
But it is discouraging when it seems that the commission seems to listen more to the WDFW staff than the public......... I'm starting to think that mergeing WDFW, Parks, and DNR might be alright; but I'd like to try getting more people involved in flooding the commission members with letters first to see if they get it. (I'm still pissed about the commission's vote on the special permit changes).. >:(
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