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and how in the hell do they know actual cougar numbers anyway, they do not. ask the WDFW how many cougars reside in the Cedar river and Tolt and Green river watersheds, substantial land areas that are off limits to hunters, combined with national park areas, There never was a shortage of cougars when it was legal statewide to hunt with hounds.The hunters ed specialist in Ephrata stated to me 3 years ago that 20 cougars reside within the city limits of Cle-Elum. missing your puppy??
THe way I understood it, the weapon restriction was meant to help out the gamies. Turns out they commonly caught a guy running around during deer or elk season with a deer rifle when he had already filled his tags. "Watcha doin'?" "uh, Cougar huntin.." He replies.cant prove he wasn't..
Quote from: Jack Diamond on June 06, 2011, 08:41:21 PMand how in the hell do they know actual cougar numbers anyway, they do not. ask the WDFW how many cougars reside in the Cedar river and Tolt and Green river watersheds, substantial land areas that are off limits to hunters, combined with national park areas, There never was a shortage of cougars when it was legal statewide to hunt with hounds.The hunters ed specialist in Ephrata stated to me 3 years ago that 20 cougars reside within the city limits of Cle-Elum. missing your puppy??How long ago was it legal statewide with hounds? When hound hunting was legal. Cougar permits were by drawing. With varying numbers of permits in different G.M.U.'sThat also included boot hunters.
i would be for huntn cougar and bear year around, but how would you keep from killing a momma that has youngans that are still to small to travel with her, if you want to fix it get hound huntn and baiting back, that way bear season can still open in august and close in december and cougar season could run from october to march again and thus taking the chance of killing a mom and letting her young starve to death, and those 2 methods are the safest and most efficient ways to take care of issues concerned by all
Quote from: jackmaster on June 08, 2011, 07:04:00 AMi would be for huntn cougar and bear year around, but how would you keep from killing a momma that has youngans that are still to small to travel with her, if you want to fix it get hound huntn and baiting back, that way bear season can still open in august and close in december and cougar season could run from october to march again and thus taking the chance of killing a mom and letting her young starve to death, and those 2 methods are the safest and most efficient ways to take care of issues concerned by all
Quote from: jackmaster on June 08, 2011, 07:04:00 AMi would be for huntn cougar and bear year around, but how would you keep from killing a momma that has youngans that are still to small to travel with her, if you want to fix it get hound huntn and baiting back, that way bear season can still open in august and close in december and cougar season could run from october to march again and thus taking the chance of killing a mom and letting her young starve to death, and those 2 methods are the safest and most efficient ways to take care of issues concerned by all I agree with the hound hunting but that is going to have to be a separate issue. As far as killing a cougar with young cubs that can happen at any time as cougars do not have a set breeding season. They can breed and have kittens anytime of the year.
i agree kain but for the most part cats breed in late winter and early spring, but either way its the only way to minimize the damage to the young, i know there is no one on here that would like to have to kill youngans because they killed the mom so lets do are best to minimize it, therefore maybe the public would except it a little better