(poll added) Management input on Colockum Elk

[colockumelk]

Rainier that is awesome.  Hey I will be working some stuff with the WDFW and the WFW.  Maybe not this year but next year definately we might need your help.  If that is okay.  I don't think Ill be able to put anything to gether by this year but hopefully next year.  Well actually I'll be in Afghanistan so maybe 2014.   

[Rainier10]

You bet, my neighbor has been in contact with Western Pacific Timber about the logging they just did next to us and blocking off the roads that they made and the open areas around the road because of the logging.  Western Pacific seems to be willing to block off the roads and create a barrier in the open areas, we will see if they actually do it.  They have an office in Ellensburg and right now my company is doing work in their new offices in Bellevue.

[colockumelk]

Cool that would be awesom if you could manage that.  Anything we can do without the involvement of the WDFW is ideal.  It is always easier and better when us as ordinary citizens (the private sector) does it than when the government and big brother does it.  Its always cheaper and better quality. 

[PlateauNDN]

Cool that would be awesom if you could manage that.  Anything we can do without the involvement of the WDFW is ideal.  It is always easier and better when us as ordinary citizens (the private sector) does it than when the government and big brother does it.  Its always cheaper and better quality.

Coming from a Government employee!

Sorry hit enter by accident.  That sounds like a very good plan if it works Rainier keep pushing it.

[colockumelk]

Cool that would be awesom if you could manage that.  Anything we can do without the involvement of the WDFW is ideal.  It is always easier and better when us as ordinary citizens (the private sector) does it than when the government and big brother does it.  Its always cheaper and better quality.

Coming from a Government employee!

Sorry hit enter by accident.  That sounds like a very good plan if it works Rainier keep pushing it.

Hey as soon as the private sector starts flying Apaches Ill gladly become a nasty civilian

[Elkaholic daWg]

That and we seem to have a DFW that wants westside tag  holders to be able to apply for eastside permits.  MORONS!

It's not the DFW that wants that- it's hunters.

Wasn't there a thread/topic on here a couple months ago with many of us  unhappy with the number of  non and anti hunters that took that survey and their anti hunting comments?.
 Was there not the suggestion that no one without a wild ID should be able to take it?

 Found it...

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,86719.0.html
 
Now they required wild id#s before you could respond to the follow up surveys, but the one that steered them to those issues did not. Antis love those things may not be able to stop us yet, but they can sure do their best to make it hard

[colockumelk]

Hopefully in the future you need a wild I'D to do this and take surveys. Should have been common sense to do this in the first place.

[doyourtime89]

I was just looking over the proposals for next year, its looks like they are talking about giving 40 antlerless elk tags to the rifle guys and 30 to the muzzleloader guys but nothing for the archery guys.  Whats up with that??      

[colockumelk]

That's it?? That's all the tags they want to give up? Guess. im gonna be having a word with the wdfw. 40 and 30 tags is a slap in the face. This wont help out at all. That population will still grow. Not sure why no cow tags for bow hunters. They were supposed to give out tags for all three user groups. Wonder if its just gonna be a general season for them?

[bobcat]

Late archery season in 328 is open for spikes and cows.

[colockumelk]

Late archery season in 328 is open for spikes and cows.

Yeah I just looked at that. Also if you draw a Colockum bull tag you can not only hunt 328 and 329 like always. But you can now hunt 335 teannaway as well.

[danderson]

I wish they would go back to having the archery bull tag in the teanaway 335 during the rut, like it should be, or is it there plan to take intellagent decisions out of game management

[NWWABOWHNTR]

That's it?? That's all the tags they want to give up? Guess. im gonna be having a word with the wdfw. 40 and 30 tags is a slap in the face. This wont help out at all. That population will still grow. Not sure why no cow tags for bow hunters. They were supposed to give out tags for all three user groups. Wonder if its just gonna be a general season for them?

They gave us late season in 328 but I think the tags for early season should have been split amongst all 3 user groups... and all 3 GMU's...

[colockumelk]

Yes how generous of the wdfw to give archers a general season antlerless hunt in 328 even though the vast majority of cows winter in GMU 329   And as far as the 70 total cow permits. WHAT A CROCK!!! That isn't going to do anything. Is their goal to grow the cow herd so much that the bull to cow ratio is 1:100?. Gentleman expect a letter for everyone to copy and paste by the end of the week.

[doyourtime89]

Sounds good, if you have a letter you are drafting to send out please let me get it and I along with all the guys I hunt with will pass it along to the game department.  Thanks