WAC 220-410-040 Game management units (GMUs) boundary descriptions—Region four.
I want to comment on issue 8 for the deer hunting season setting and rulemaking. Please allow more liberal deer hunting seasons on Whidbey Island. My family and I love to harvest and eat those blacktail deer. We make steaks, burger, sausage,
and bone broth. I would love to help with the overpopulation issue via hunting.
WAC 220-410-050 Game management units (GMUs) boundary descriptions—Region five.
I am asking you to please reconsider Adding Elk Area 5066 (Norway Pass) to GMU 522 (Loo-Wit). This proposal was lumped in with several other proposals during the comment period with no way to individually select support or not support the proposal, however
if you look at the individual comments this particular proposal had all but one comment stating that this is a terrible idea. This area is hard to access and provides the public with a great scenic area to hike and hunt for multiple species. Hunting access
is getting very difficult and expensive with WEYCO and other timber companies charging access and we are left with crowded public lands. This will be another example of a large chunk of land closed to the public for hunting. I am asking you to please leave
elk area 5066 (Norway Pass) the way it currently is and continue to allow us to hunt in the area.
I disagree with proposal 2. You are taking an area that was open to general hunting for archery and muzzle loader and and putting it into a permit only area. Reducing the already small available muzzleloader areas.
