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Here it comes boys and girls!!!!  What a crock!!!  We have some of the highest resident license prices in the nation already!!!  This increase is due to all of the non-sportsman's WDFW crap like Pond turtle studies, wolf re-introduction, etc,etc, and etc!!!!  They are going to squeeze us until the turnip bleeds!!!!
 

WDFW invites public to webinar
to discuss agency long-term funding


OLYMPIA – The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has scheduled a public webinar for 7 p.m. Monday, July 23, to discuss current funding challenges and opportunities for the State of Washington to invest in fish and wildlife management and conservation of lands and habitat.

To take part in the webinar, the public should visit this link (https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8360838542216730371) — also available at wdfw.wa.gov — and follow the instructions there to register. Registration via the website is available now through Monday.

Alternatively, for those who only wish to listen in, please call +1 (415) 655-0052 after 6:45 p.m. Monday and enter code 281-297-953 to participate.

During the webinar, Nate Pamplin, WDFW policy director, will describe the work of independent consultants and the agency's Budget and Policy Advisory Group to explain the causes of a projected $30 million gap in funding faced by the department over the two-year budget cycle that begins in July 2019.   

Pamplin will describe planned budget cuts and proposed funding increases that are designed to eliminate the shortfall and ensure the department has adequate funding in the future.

He said several factors have caused the shortfall, including:

Several one-time funding patches approved by lawmakers in recent years will expire soon.
WDFW revenue from the sale of recreational licenses has not kept pace with spending authorized by the Legislature for managing fish, wildlife, and their habitat.
The department still has not fully recovered from the deep cuts imposed during the recession, and license fees have not been adjusted since 2011.
To meet the challenge, the department is preparing a set of state general fund budget proposals and is exploring options for recreational license fee increases to propose to the Governor and Legislature in order to avoid reducing service to the public and to fulfill its conservation mission.

Documents describing spending and revenue proposals are available on WDFW's website at https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/budget/development/.
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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2018, 10:55:05 PM »
Clown show, just missin a dog and pony.
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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2018, 01:14:14 AM »
Sad it will be cheaper to hunt better quality out of state than in your own. Start seeing a mass exodus?

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2018, 04:48:01 AM »
How about a citizen's initiative?  Someone smarter than I should put one together that would provide $30M in funding from the general fund.  Word it right and tie the funds solely to something appealing like habitat restoration or protection of something and it would have a chance at passing.

On the other side, if 90% of the funding comes from recreational hunters and fisherman, we should probably start calling the shots on things like commercial/sport splits and hold an equivalent amount of seats on the commission.

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #4 on: July 18, 2018, 05:18:48 AM »
How about a go fund me page. Who is going to support a increase when game quality is so poor. Better off the agency goes bankrupt
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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #5 on: July 18, 2018, 05:29:29 AM »
They obviously don’t care about hiding their disgust for hunters anymore. All other surrounding states are going to be pissed when a crap ton of hunters from Washington flood their hunting grounds!
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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2018, 05:32:04 AM »
"To meet the challenge, the department is preparing a set of state general fund budget proposals and is exploring options for recreational license fee increases to propose to the Governor and Legislature in order to avoid reducing service to the public and to fulfill its conservation mission."

Oh no!  Cut the service?  He says that like it's a bad thing. Sounds like it is past time to cut the "service."

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2018, 06:06:24 AM »
cut the wolf funding, problem solved

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2018, 06:19:10 AM »
Every hunter take a year off. No in state licenses at all.

Then they might listen

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2018, 06:28:34 AM »
I like it.  But it will never happen.  We are too self-interested and disorganized.

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2018, 07:03:47 AM »
I like it.  But it will never happen.  We are too self-interested and disorganized.

You are spot on but this is why the left is so successful with their policies. They are organized. Maybe we should take note! I would totally get behind a no tags for year to send a message to wdfw
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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2018, 07:10:12 AM »
I think we have the right to see a list of budget expenditures.  I want to see where the cash is going exactly!!!  Pensions?  Wolf studies?  etc.  Let us see!!!  Cut the crap and prove why $ is needed...
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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2018, 07:14:56 AM »
I would definitely take a yr off and not buy any tags. 

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2018, 07:54:08 AM »
I would definitely take a yr off and not buy any tags.

Yep, I've already reduced what I do buy to a bear and a turkey tag. Wouldn't cause me too much heartburn to leave the guns and take a camera for a year, still get to pursue my hobby, but not feed into the beast.

Itll never happen though, I remember reading something on here awhile back about what it would take tag wise to even be noticed by wdfw, it was a staggering number.

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Re: Get ready for Washington State hunting licenses to skyrocket!!!!
« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2018, 08:11:13 AM »
I would definitely take a yr off and not buy any tags.

Would be simple for me too since I already hunt out of state. Subtracting a deer tag would be easy
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