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People need to remember that WDFW is the Dept of Fish and Wildlife, not Dept of Fishing and Hunting....
Quote from: bigtex on December 10, 2011, 05:13:19 PMPeople need to remember that WDFW is the Dept of Fish and Wildlife, not Dept of Fishing and Hunting....Correct. Which is why WDFW does not need hunters. They will always have fish and wildlife to manage with or without hunting.
Quote from: bigtex on December 10, 2011, 05:13:19 PMPeople need to remember that WDFW is the Dept of Fish and Wildlife, not Dept of Fishing and Hunting....I wish they could seperate it...It would be more transparent to the public as to what funds what. A department of fishing and hunting would not have a budget problem. Fishers and Hunters in this state support more nongame management than they know. Lots of federal grants (majority of nongame management $ and fisheries) need matching state funds to initiate them and guess where a lot of those matching funds come from. I am sure some general, some taxes on the nonconsumptive users but a majority comes from sportsman. By the way, I read in the Spokesman Review that Jay Kehne is a member of Mule deer Foundation and RMEF.Derrick Knowles (Sp?) of Conservation Northwest was also on the wolf working group who helped develop the wolf plan.
"All of it needs to be managed in todays world to be successful. I hunt deer, and elk but not cougars or bears. I have been on bear hunts but somewhere along the line I just decided to keep to the animals that I really like to eat and I'm not that fond of bear. " J-KBelieve it or not i think this says it all. I may not hunt bear or cougar specifically, however i understand the need to manage them. With dwindling numbers of deer and elk i would think more conservation minded hunter SHOULD specifically target bear, cougar, and coyote especailly given the severe restrictions in place. I have been thinking that I should ONLY buy bear and cougar tags because there are more now, AND the game needs some relief.