This is how the government manages wildlife.

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WDFW at work "protecting" wildlife.

https://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/loc ... 5dcda.html

"Petitioners appeal to governor after Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission denies gray wolf"


"Petitioners appeal to governor after Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission denies gray wolf rulemaking"
By Erin Rebar

"Conservation groups are urging Gov. Jay Inslee to overturn a decision by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission on gray wolves. "

"In the appeal, petitioners told Inslee he has granted past appeals, and pleaded he considers seriously the importance of addressing the current issue regarding wolf-livestock conflicts and wolf killings in Washington state. Two letters of support from both the Center for Biological Diversity and Washington Wildlife First were filed with the appeal, which was signed by 11 conservation organizations.

“Nearly 18 months after your September 4, 2020 letter ordering the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to engage in rulemaking to regulate state wolf management, the Department proposed a rule that lacked meaningful or enforceable standards,” the appeal to Inslee states. “In response, on July 8, 2022, the (Washington Fish and Wildlife) Commission voted 5-4 to take ‘no action’ on a potential wolf rule, without any substantive discussion about your direction to ‘institute practices that will avoid the repeated loss of wolves and livestock in our state.’ Since then, the Commission has failed to fulfill its promises to revisit the issue.”

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Really dumb management. Hunters in the woods shooting at night. What could go wrong? And it’s difficult to tell the difference between spotted owls and barred owls. How many spotted owls will be shot by mistake? More stupid management, like closing off state land to public use and re-introducing grizzlies to the North Cascades.

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"US Government Wants Hunters to Shoot 500,000 Owls"

https://www.newsweek.com/invasive-speci ... st-1850348

"Are we going to do more harm than good? Do we really want a bunch of people in the woods shooting at what are otherwise protected birds?" Bob Sallinger, executive director of Bird Conservation Oregon, told the Seattle Times. "I nearly always opposed these sorts of programs.

"I do put the highest priority on preventing extinction, and there is science that shows us this is probably necessary. But this is really a no-win, awful situation we created for ourselves. It is appalling we have to consider these kinds of measures, and incredibly sad."