These two states along with good ol' California have in-acted policies pushed by PITA to take game management away form the State Game Departments and put in hands of the voters to be determined by "THE MAJORITY" . I would expect this coming the 3 most liberal states in the western United States'
As a result we see our bear and cougar numbers exploding since the effective means endorsed ( use of baiting and hounds ) and seasons set by the various State Game Departments, have been eliminated by popular vote.. As a result, we have seen Cougar and Bear in our high density areas many times in these large cities and near schools......
Guess who's upset with these Conditions? The very people who set it into motionwhile while having no sympathy for the ranchers and their livestock and Big Game also being effected by this situation.
That policy, along with the more recent introduction and subsequent protection of Canadian Timber Wolves as a replacement for the Extinct Prarie wolf are and have deciminated our large Deer and Elk populations to drastically low numbers in most of the " Historically Productive " hunting areas of several Western States. These heavy voting blocks, of largely Democrats, out number the total population of the more rural and "Conservative" aeas of these sparsley populated states where the game populations and people depending on that game and the livestock in those vast areas live.
Do you see similar situations in the areas you live and hunt in ? I sure hope not.
Gene
