Letter to the Editor: One less bull in the Tieton Dr. herd...

[boneaddict]

I believe you are spot on Coastal.

[buckmaster_wa]

Coastal, I was a bit hesitant to post the pictures with the guys faces. Then I decided, The hell with it, those three guys were way to proud of what they had done. They were laughing and joking the whole time I was at the scene. When one of the WDFW officers told me that it was out of there hands and they were waiting for Tribal Police to show up I heard the Three Natives snicker like little school girls. Talk about make your blood boil. I really wish I would of had my video camera (I needed to buy a new disc). i could have recorded the way that they acted. That really would have got some attention. It was almost like they wanted to be caught, just to show that they wouldn't get in any trouble (once again).

As for the location of where they killed the elk.

At the Nile feeding station they feed the elk in a large meadow that sits below the road maybe 20 yards. The meadow is about 300 yards long and 75 yards deep. These guys were waiting on the road for the elk to come down the hill to the feed lot. They then shot them on the uphill side of the road and drug them down to there trucks. So they were litterally 200 yards up the hill from the hay piles. They have probably done this before and knew that it would be easier to shoot them up hill then to shoot them down in the feed lot. This way it would be much easier to retrieve the game.

Something else that put a bad taste in my mouth was when I was leaving and had just passed the feed lot there were three rigs coming up the road. All with woman and children in the vehicles. I stopped the first rig and explained the situation to the lady and she thanked me and turned around so the children wouldn't see the kill site.

[boneaddict]

I hope they nailed them from shooting them off the road.  Can you imagine those carloads of kids sitting there or coming up the road when they opened fire down along the road.

[logger]

I guess I'm naive to this, BUT why do we have to call tribal police to enforce activity's on public land? To me that would be the same as calling mexican police to arrest a illegal in yakama. If a crime is committed on tribal ground call tribal police, if it's committed in the united states then you would call the proper dept. that would handle such a case. You can bet your ass I couldn't go to foriegn country and tromp all over their rules and laws and get away with it and then they call the u.s. to deal with me, once I stepped over the border I'm playing by their rules.

[boneaddict]

FINALLY someone who gets why I think this Soveriegn nation *censored* is for the birds.  You are either American or not.

[grundy53]

I guess I'm naive to this, BUT why do we have to call tribal police to enforce activity's on public land? To me that would be the same as calling mexican police to arrest a illegal in yakama. If a crime is committed on tribal ground call tribal police, if it's committed in the united states then you would call the proper dept. that would handle such a case. You can bet your ass I couldn't go to foriegn country and tromp all over their rules and laws and get away with it and then they call the u.s. to deal with me, once I stepped over the border I'm playing by their rules.

  EXACTLY

[grundy53]

FINALLY someone who gets why I think this Soveriegn nation *censored* is for the birds.  You are either American or not.

i've always thought that too. either you american or your not. you can't have your cake and eat it too.

[Jack Diamond]

So how do we fix it??
worked out of Toppenish for 12 years and had 3  drivers that were full blood Yakamas, and they did not agree with the wasting of salmon by their own relatives at Dallesport, One of them said the U.S. should of never started the reservation deal=his quote "should have killed us all, or put us in the general population,not set aside as a special entity" Kind of shocked me at the time,but I saw the rez as a land of little opportunity, and very few people that new how to pull themselves out and move on. But for a lot of them, the government owes it to them ,to take care of them.
Just do not know how to fix it with the game laws, wish I did.

[buckmaster_wa]

So how do we fix it??
But for a lot of them, the government owes it to them ,to take care of them.
Just do not know how to fix it with the game laws, wish I did.

I hope that you dont think that the government owes it to them. I believe it is the Governments fault that they are such a uneducated and underachieved race. They have been spoon fed for 155 years. It has crippled them. I feel the same for people who are on welfare for there whole life and never go out and find a job. They have no work ethic and have no desire to get a job. The statistics show that 85% of people who lose there welfare or run out on there unemployment find jobs within the first two weeks of running out of funds. Kinda crazy uh.

[buckmaster_wa]

Congrats on getting your letter published Josh. I hope that more people send in letters and we can keep this issue in the publics eye. We need at least one of these letters posted each week. If you live in the Yakima area or actually anywhere please take the time to write up an educated letter to editor about this ongoing issue. Then submit it online. It takes about two weeks before they publish so be patient.

[ribka]

Another elk shot 01/01/2011 by Hansen Pond Road in unit 342. I did not witness only saw the recent signs ( see photo)   Someone shot it from the road, backed up their truck and loaded it up.

Can natives shoot from the road?

[Jack Diamond]

No, I do not believe the government owes them anything at all-that said,



Excellent letter Josh.

[kirkl]

where is hanson road pond? is it farther out past wenas lake?

[ribka]

where is hanson road pond? is it farther out past wenas lake?

About another 8-10 miles past lake towards Ellensburg

[whiteeyes]

Another elk shot 01/01/2011 by Hansen Pond Road in unit 342. I did not witness only saw the recent signs ( see photo)   Someone shot it from the road, backed up their truck and loaded it up.

Can natives shoot from the road?

Head north of Ellensburg you will see spots like that all across  from Reecer Creek to Vantage. Right of the road, Master Hunters are having a good year. Seen one last weekend using a snowmobile to drag it to there truck up in the Coleman.