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WDFW will hold Colville meeting to talk hunting |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
Meetings will help agency shape
recommendations for 2009-11 seasons
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will hold a public meeting in Colville on Thursday, Sept. 18 to provide hunt¬ers and others an additional opportunity to help shape future hunting seasons.
The open house-style meeting will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Dominion and Monumental rooms of the Colville Center of the Community Colleges of Spokane (985 S. Elm St., Colville).
The meeting was added to a series of seven meetings sched¬uled through Sept. 4 at locations across the state to help develop hunting seasons and regulations for 2009-2011.
WDFW will consider comments received at the meetings in de¬veloping a final set of recommendations for 2009-2011 hunting seasons for adoption by the Washington Fish and Wildlife Com¬mission next spring.
Dave Ware, WDFW game program manager, said the meetings will focus on “local hunting issues as well as statewide issues like non-toxic shot restrictions, shooting hours, muzzleloader seasons and possible changes to permit drawings.”
Many of those issues were included in an online opinion sur¬vey conducted through mid-July by WDFW to gauge public in¬terest in various alternatives.
“Results of the online survey were used to shape the various alternatives that will be available for comment at the upcoming meeting,” Ware said. “We want everyone interested in future hunting to have an opportunity to comment before we move for¬ward with any proposals.”
Additional information on the process for developing hunting seasons for 2009-2011 is posted on the WDFW website at http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/seasonsetting/index.htm.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 10 September 2008 )
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