Washington State and Roadkill Laws Change.

Finished degreasing a number of skulls this past month. 

Most of these skulls were road kill salvage from Idaho. 

It is a good thing to be able to salvage game critters that are whacked by vehicles.
 Idaho seems to consider an animal that has to be left at the roadside a wasted resource. This past year we have gotten two animals that were warm dead. Which means they were food quality kills.
We hi-graded the best parts for us and the rest went to bug food and dog food. Life was good for everyone and two animals did not have to rot at the side of the road.

Washington has not been so enlightened in the past but come July is going to permit salvage of deer or elk. 

As a resident of Washington State since the 1970s I have watched this state's Game Department change to something that most rank and file hunters do not like. Administration grows and the real opportunities for the sportsman shrink.

There are the supposed added benefits of land purchases, drawings for quality hunts and landowner participation allowing hunting on private property. Many of these

Sportsmen benefits are simply smoke and mirrors...

everything is made to sound wonderful but in reality it doesn't work.

All to often, supposed private ground (included in hunt by permission) has been closed to everyone except specific family members or friends of the owners. Then we have the big blocks of property held by specific companies, these are allowed a very generous allotment of quality tags for allowing the public to hunt. Smoke again...access seems to go only to family or others that are deemed worthy, the common folk are shut out. Why? Our allotment of hunters have been met, yeah sure.

Then there is the purchase of permit applications, this idea is just to suck in the person who wants the opportunity to hunt an adult animal. I wonder just how many of us are stupid to continue to feed this one armed bandit.  Yep, this is a system that is working to keep the average person tied into buying tags and then the applications for those draws...big bucks to pay for Admin!

It is about time to go to the Governor and not so nicely suggest that politics should not play into managing our resources.

Then if that does not work it is about time to buy else where....and encourage
Washingtonians  use their sportsman dollars in another state that still wants the common people to hunt and recreate in their state.

This entire post has nothing to do with my bugs! This post is a rant against a system that is self perpetuating and geared to providing for the influential.