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This is typical in Washington. The West Side tells the East side what to do. This bill clearly ask only to let the East side rural people control predators so they could still survive. The West siders very clearly stated by failing this bill that THEY COULDN'T CARE LESS. The cattlemen will not starve themselves but would prefer to be legal citizens in protecting their livestock. They are now forced to go underground and become criminals or DIE. You can't blame them!
Thats a bit of a gross generalization. I'm a hunter and a farmer, yet I am active in the controversy and don't see any agenda in the banning of hunting. What I am seeing is some extreme environmentalists among others who are thinking with common sense. I meet alot of other hunters as well who welcome an extra challenge to overcome(the sportsmen) and others who see the benefit of the herd being thinned out a bit(survival hunters). Because as we've seen, human managed elk herds has not been good to the quality of the elk meat or the effect they have on the land. I may not have been hunting as long as ya'll, but I've been around hunting all my life and have seen alot. What really burns my hide is the hunters we meet at elk camps who say the stupidest stuff ever, "First the damn natives want to tell us when and where to hunt, now we have to worry about wolves? I say git rid of them both...". I can't stand to see people like that ruin to good tradition of hunting with ignorance.
I wish we had a block poster function on this board so I wouldn't have to wade through this guy's tailings.