Fish and Wildlife Commission adopts plan to conserve and manage gray wolves

[Kain]

For those of you with Facebook accounts.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150423160876761&set=a.390652606760.166104.385127436760&type=1&theater

[WAcoyotehunter]

what a trainwreck that is... I just want to see the particulars of the amendments made- can anyone show me those?

[Elkaholic daWg]

  So I guess we can say that the ONE thing this state can't F  U is a train wreck

[Kain]

I cant find anything on the amendments.  Were the amendments subject to thesame public comment and review as the rest of the plan? 

[wraithen]

No, they appeared at the council meeting.

[akirkland]

Boycott buying any type of Washington hunting/fishing licenses, tags etc. Don't buy a Discover Pass or support the state parks, nothing. Save your money and go out of state. Show those people in Olympia that we mean business and are sick and tired of being screwed all the time. They raise our fees and shorten our seasons and change the dates. Would the last sportsman/women leaving Washington turn off the lights please !

[Kain]

The reason I ask about the public comment and review of the amendments is the the wdfw bent over backwards to make this plan as lawsuit proof as it could be.  Now the commission added amendments that could open it all up to lawsuits once the wdfw tries to start managing the wolves.  That was already going to happen but if these amendments did not go through the same scrutiny and process it could bring the whole thing down.  This could add years to the management of wolves.

[Kain]

Which is sad because I like some of the amendments.

[bearpaw]

Kain it really doesn't matter, the WDFW will not be able to accurately document the wolf population anyway. They do not have the experienced personnel to do the job and they are broke. By the time they say we have 15 bps there will be 50 bp's.

Without the amendments we were screwed and with them we are screwed, no matter what, the wolf lovers will sue. I commend the commission for at least adding the amendments. Too bad they didn't reduce the bp's down to 6 or 8 statewide because it will go to court anyway, at least that way it would go to court at 6 or 8 bp's instead of at 15 bp's. 

REMEMBER WYOMING:  They stuck with 10 bp's and they are going to end up in better position than ID, MT, or WA.

[leed]

Anyone have the amendments yet?  Not that it will matter much.

[huntrights]

"The draft Wolf Conservation and Management Plan is posted on WDFW’s website at http://wdfw.wa.gov/conservation/gray_wolf/. The final plan, incorporating amendments adopted by the commission, will be posted on the site by mid-January. "