Check This Out --- We got them worried

[bearpaw]

Parking lot items are questions that the commissioners asked the game department at prior meetings. Instead of taking up that meetings time, they put them in what is caklled a parking lot for answering later when time is alloted. Some time is alloted at this meeting.

Chapter 4 of the Wolf Plan is Wolf-Livestock Conflicts

Chapter 5 of the Wolf Plan is Wolf-Ungulate Interactions

Here is a link to the Wolf Plan http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/00001/wdfw00001.pdf
once there look on the left border and click the +sign next to FINAL RECOMMENDED WOLF CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR WASHINGTON

then scroll until you find Chapter 4 or 5

Thanks for this and thanks for all your hard work and dedication..... 

I have something I am working on that will hopefully pull some people together. There are thousands of RMEF members in this state and to my knowledge not one chapter has been very involved in this wolf issue. Also there are Mule Deer foundation members and I have heard nothing from the mule deer foundation. Groups need to come together on this issue.

Is there anyone who is a member of any chapters of these organizations on the forum?

[huntrights]

I recently sent an email to the RMEF indicating I was ready to join their organization, but I stopped short of joining because I am confused about their mission.  This is an excerpt from that email:

"... Please let me know if the RMEF will be an active rational voice in the control of wolves in the State of Washington.  If your mission is to support elk herds, elk habitat, and elk hunting, then I would expect the RMEF to be active in pushing for control of wolf populations.  However, if you are not taking an active role in pushing for local and national legislation to keep wolf populations at levels that will not impact elk and deer populations, then I will be confused about what your mission is.  Based on what I have read from other hunters, many of them are confused about your mission. ..."

[grizzlyadams]

Sorry...I guess I'll be the blacksheep of the post. I don't see a need for them at all. Anything to keep them at a level of none in our state is just dandy to me. My problem is the enviromentalists who in favor of the wolves will allow decimation of big game animals. We have enough protected preditors in this state and the wolf lovers only want it one way...their way. So don't even give them an inch. Hunting wolves should be like hunting coyotes....all year round and as many as you can get!!!!

[BOWHUNTER45]

Sorry...I guess I'll be the blacksheep of the post. I don't see a need for them at all. Anything to keep them at a level of none in our state is just dandy to me. My problem is the enviromentalists who in favor of the wolves will allow decimation of big game animals. We have enough protected preditors in this state and the wolf lovers only want it one way...their way. So don't even give them an inch. Hunting wolves should be like hunting coyotes....all year round and as many as you can get!!!!

Yeah Thats what I am saying ...

[huntrights]

In political battles, the more people and organizations you have supporting your views by writing emails, sending letters, making phone calls, and going to meetings, the better chance you have of winning those battles, or at least skewing the outcome closer to your position.  If the RMEF can take an official stand to help keep wolf populations from getting out of control as they have in other states, then soliciting support from the RMEF can be beneficial for their mission and for those of us that wish to keep wolves from getting out of control in the State of Washington.  The political arena is not a fair or friendly place, so we must learn to work with it as it is; it is extremely important to gather as much support as possible from all people and organizations regardless of some possible questionable positions in the past.

[bearpaw]

In political battles, the more people and organizations you have supporting your views by writing emails, sending letters, making phone calls, and going to meetings, the better chance you have of winning those battles, or at least skewing the outcome closer to your position.  If the RMEF can take an official stand to help keep wolf populations from getting out of control as they have in other states, then soliciting support from the RMEF can be beneficial for their mission and for those of us that wish to keep wolves from getting out of control in the State of Washington.  The political arena is not a fair or friendly place, so we must learn to work with it as it is; it is extremely important to gather as much support as possible from all people and organizations regardless of some possible questionable positions in the past.

Exactly right, hopefully we can get RMEF to at least show some support....