Elk Permits - allow east and west apllication

[jess]

sounds great to me i hope it goes through...

[TommyH]

If this goes through I will be hunting branch bulls on the westside, putting in for my east tags as always. I have never hunted on the west side in my life! We will pull spike camp to harvest a branched bull. We will come in numbers, and we will be eating rosie back strap. Be carefull what you wish for...

  shed stud you are a true poet!!

[bobcat]

They could go to permit only elk hunting statewide. Which would you prefer?

 And yet you laughed at my idea. When it goes to permit only, and you only get to hunt every three to four years, hunting elk one year and deer the next won't seem so bad.

I don't remember laughing at your idea. I would probably be for anything that reduced hunting pressure. Permit only, or some system where a person can only hunt every other year, would be better than what we have now. But the thing is, if they reduce elk hunting opportunity, they need to do the same with deer. Otherwise deer are going to get a whole lot more pressure by the guys who normally would be elk hunting.

[colockumelk]

If this goes through I will be hunting branch bulls on the westside, putting in for my east tags as always. I have never hunted on the west side in my life! We will pull spike camp to harvest a branched bull. We will come in numbers, and we will be eating rosie back strap. Be carefull what you wish for...

  shed stud you are a true poet!!

Mmmm rosie

[RB]

They could go to permit only elk hunting statewide. Which would you prefer?

 And yet you laughed at my idea. When it goes to permit only, and you only get to hunt every three to four years, hunting elk one year and deer the next won't seem so bad.

I don't remember laughing at your idea. I would probably be for anything that reduced hunting pressure. Permit only, or some system where a person can only hunt every other year, would be better than what we have now. But the thing is, if they reduce elk hunting opportunity, they need to do the same with deer. Otherwise deer are going to get a whole lot more pressure by the guys who normally would be elk hunting.

The same effect the ground fish in Puget sound had when Salmon seasons were cut in the 80's guys that normally would just get a few bottom fish as by-catch while Salmon fishing switched to targeting them when they could not Salmon fish. Washington one of the smallest western states with one of the highest populations 

[BENCHLEG]

all i have to say about this idea is ..... F--U--WDFW.  i hate this state. keep it the way it is now.

[colockumelk]

WDFW motto: Taking things that work and fixing them until their broke since 1994 

[6x6in6]

WDFW motto: Taking things that work and fixing them until their broke since 1994 

[steeleywhopper]

Where did these polls take place? I would have liked to give input.

[bullcanyon]

They were emailed out. Get on the wdfw emailing list.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/lists/

[RB]

They were emailed out. Get on the wdfw emailing list.

http://wdfw.wa.gov/lists/

Thank You did not know about this 

[Elkaholic daWg]

WDFW motto: Taking things that work and fixing them until their broke since 1994 

 Got it, completed it, and told them to shove it! (This proposal)

[colockumelk]

WDFW motto: Taking things that work and fixing them until their broke since 1994 

 Got it, completed it, and told them to shove it! (This proposal)

[Arteman]

Basically this is how I see it.
Eastside Elk season hunting pressure- Decrease
Odds of killing an Eastside spike- Increase
Odds of drawing an Eastside bull- Impossible
Odds of drawing a Westside bull- Increase
Odds of drawing a Westside Cow- Decrease
Westside Elk season hunting pressure- Increase
Odds of killing a westside bull- Decrease
States revenue- Stays the same, for a couple years tell people start hunting out of state then decrease.

It's a no brainer, I'm with Bobcat on this one.  Buy eastside tags, and put in for westside bull permits.  And I'm from the westside.

[colockumelk]

Your assumption are spot on arteman.