Post by: bobcat on February 18, 2015, 09:51:59 PM
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By Jeffrey P. Mayor
Staff writerJanuary 10, 2015
The Discover Pass, which provides holders access to state recreation lands, will have a new look in 2015.
The design, which features a green nature scene background, will help differentiate the pass from the yellow hangtag and paper vehicle access pass issued by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
The new pass will be printed in full color on durable synthetic paper. It will be issued beginning this month through the Department of Licensing and State Parks websites. Passes also are sold at 28 state parks. The new passes for those locations will be shipped this month.
The new passes will be available at more than 600 retail outlets statewide in February.
The paper is tear resistant and will not curl or fade over the course of the year. It also is recyclable.
For the state, the new pass has a benefit. It is cheaper to produce than the current passes printed on Tyvek.
The pass is required when using recreation lands and water-access sites managed by Washington State Parks, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the state Department of Natural Resources. These lands include more than 100 state parks, almost 700 water-access points, heritage sites, more than 110 wildlife and natural areas, Natural Resources and Fish and Wildlife campgrounds, trails and trailheads and all-DNR managed uplands.
The pass also can be transferred between two vehicles.
Read more here: http://www.theolympian.com/2015/01/10/3510055_state-redesigns-look-of-discover.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy (http://www.theolympian.com/2015/01/10/3510055_state-redesigns-look-of-discover.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy)
Post by: huntnnw on February 18, 2015, 10:17:43 PM
Post by: bobcat on February 18, 2015, 10:19:31 PM
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on February 19, 2015, 04:44:15 AM
Post by: Skyvalhunter on February 19, 2015, 05:07:14 AM
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on February 19, 2015, 07:07:12 AM
I don't have any National Forest near me, so I have to purchase the pass, even if it's just so I can go target shooting in the woods.
I just go target shoot. I haven't ever seen the original pass. I still refuse. I enjoy roads that taxes paid for years ago. I have yet to see Anyone enforcing the discover pass. Even at rainbow falls state park in the spring. No camp host. If they asked id say yeah it came w my hunting tags the yellow guy right...? :chuckle:
Post by: Special T on February 19, 2015, 07:15:24 AM
Ill still refuse to buy one.
Post by: h2ofowlr on February 19, 2015, 07:20:01 AM
Post by: bigtex on February 19, 2015, 07:24:23 AM
I have yet to see Anyone enforcing the discover pass.Easily over a thousand tickets issued every year.
Post by: Special T on February 19, 2015, 07:51:21 AM
Post by: Naches Sportsman on February 19, 2015, 07:55:00 AM
I recently noticed a fresh dp required sign on a forest service bulliten board on forest service land, I sure wanted to rip it off. Fricken scums trying to trick people into buying a discover pass so they can park on forest service land. Ridiculous. You need a b.s. in discover pass in order to understand the reasoning behind it :yike:
I have yet to see Anyone enforcing the discover pass.Easily over a thousand tickets issued every year.
If mr jones catches ya on the athanum without one, you will be ticketed.
Post by: bearpaw on February 19, 2015, 07:57:47 AM
I have yet to see Anyone enforcing the discover pass.Easily over a thousand tickets issued every year.
There is a lot of state land in the NE, if you get checked by WDFW officers while on state land that is one of the first things they check. I just received my new pass in the mail in the last week or so, it was still the old style.
Are these going to be stand alone passes or are they going to be printed on the crappy wax paper the the hunter parking are made of? If they go to a designated DP hanger, then the cost just went WAY up and it will take more sales to make the parks department their meager sales.
The article says new paper that retains the color and is cheaper.
Post by: CAMPMEAT on February 19, 2015, 08:07:54 AM
I have yet to see Anyone enforcing the discover pass.Easily over a thousand tickets issued every year.
.......................and hopefully it's to the anti-hunters, anti-atvers.
Post by: fireweed on February 19, 2015, 08:12:13 AM
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on February 19, 2015, 08:15:53 AM
Post by: Special T on February 19, 2015, 08:20:12 AM
There might be a teeny, tiny, itsy-bitsy improvement in hunting in the works, partly due to the unfairness of the Discover Pass. Bill 1346 that opens up some State Park land to hunting passed out of the first committee. It is changed to instruct the State parks to try a pilot program of allowing hunting in four state parks. One of the arguments pushing State Parks to allow some type of hunting somewhere is that 84% of the DP $ goes to parks when hunters buy one to hunt DNR.
Duck hunting on water out front of a park is not really hunting in a park.
The whole reason for the DP is to fund parks and it is wrong to take funds from hunters to pay for parks. Not really a surprise at the degradation of the Pay to Play philosophy that was in Wa state.
Post by: Hi-Liter on February 19, 2015, 02:36:00 PM
Post by: Boss .300 winmag on February 19, 2015, 02:47:30 PM
The whole discover pass thing is *censored* we already shell out enough money as it is.
I recently noticed a fresh dp required sign on a forest service bulliten board on forest service land, I sure wanted to rip it off. Fricken scums trying to trick people into buying a discover pass so they can park on forest service land. Ridiculous. You need a b.s. in discover pass in order to understand the reasoning behind it :yike:I have yet to see Anyone enforcing the discover pass.Easily over a thousand tickets issued every year.
If mr jones catches ya on the athanum without one, you will be ticketed.
You should of removed it, that's straight up lying to get people to buy the pass, some people just don't know much about our public lands and who runs what and will buy on now they see the bogus sign. :twocents:
I caught up with my dues for the last three years last year. :chuckle:
Post by: DIYARCHERYJUNKIE on February 19, 2015, 05:05:11 PM
:chuckle: I'm sure my time is coming. Although I rarely ever go on to state.The whole discover pass thing is *censored* we already shell out enough money as it is.
I recently noticed a fresh dp required sign on a forest service bulliten board on forest service land, I sure wanted to rip it off. Fricken scums trying to trick people into buying a discover pass so they can park on forest service land. Ridiculous. You need a b.s. in discover pass in order to understand the reasoning behind it :yike:I have yet to see Anyone enforcing the discover pass.Easily over a thousand tickets issued every year.
If mr jones catches ya on the athanum without one, you will be ticketed.
You should of removed it, that's straight up lying to get people to buy the pass, some people just don't know much about our public lands and who runs what and will buy on now they see the bogus sign. :twocents:
I caught up with my dues for the last three years last year. :chuckle:
Post by: trophyhunt on February 19, 2015, 05:10:35 PM
Never seen one :chuckle: never will!:yeah: No thanks, I pay enough. And I spend 99% of my time in the backcountry on na forest land.
Post by: h2ofowlr on February 19, 2015, 05:38:21 PM
Post by: Special T on February 19, 2015, 09:57:15 PM
Will the new ones use UV resistant ink? I know my current pass that expires in August look like a blank piece of plastic stapled to the yellow mirror hanger.
Which I bet is why they changed them up... hard to distinguish a faded WDFW permit from a DP one...
Post by: bobcat on February 19, 2015, 10:10:32 PM
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The design, which features a green nature scene background, will help differentiate the pass from the yellow hangtag and paper vehicle access pass issued by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.