summit daWg
I suggest you go and read what is here....... http://www.ynwildlife.org/tribalhunting.php ...... I will say up front I am not a Yakama indian...but I do get tired of them getting the blame for all the woes of the game world...YesI don't doubt that there are bad and unethical hunters amongst the ranks of the indians just as there are unethical hunters andpoachers amongst the white hunters!!! But not all indians are greedy and classes hunters, to make a statment like that is just plain out and out racist!!! You know it, and I know it!!!!
Then you make the off hand remark that they are to blame for the decline of the salmon!! **** there were MILLIONS and MILLIONS of salmon in the Columbia before we got here!!! and what did we do?? we built Grand Coulee dam and that destroyed 1100 miles of spawning grounds!!! Do the indians get special hunting rights and privledges?? YEP!!! is it right??? I don't know....maybe some need to be taken away, maybe others enhanced....I can't say which..all I can do is continue to attend what dept meetingsI can and wright what letters I can...and hope that all can come together some place in the middle!!!
I will tell you that if you are up at the preserve and you see indians in there get a license plate and other identifieing info and call the Yakama game office!! they will come and remedy the problem..tribal members are not to hunt there either!!
nor is it legal for them to spot light!!!! if you get no response from the tribal game wardens then call their main office, they don't want the indians breaking the rules either!!!!