It’s insane. It’s also an argument you’ll never win. If WDFW eliminated bear hunting completely, it wouldn’t “save” any bears. Instead, we’d have more starving and diseased bears moving into suburban areas looking for food and shelter. WDFW would still have to manage bears, which would involve culling bears to some degree.

As a hunter, his views on the spring bear hunt situation, and hunting in general, give me hope that he’ll be a voice of reason at WDFW.

Beautiful. Living in Western Washington I forget how varied the landscape is.

I’m not going to spend a lot of time responding becauseI think you’re determined to wallow in doom and gloom. However, it’s been estimated that there has been an ROI of $7 to $1 from the Apollo program. That’s significant. That program produced, or made better, technologies like better fire fighting equipment, water filtration, heart and health monitoring, more efficient solar panels, better treatments for dialysis patients. Not to mention the billions NASA spends on earth sciences each year. The Saturn V isn’t around any longer, but we still have all the technologies that spun out of the Apollo program.

I don’t understand this mindset. NASA doesn’t take bags of money and launch them into space. The money is spent here on earth on things like R&D and paying salaries to highly skilled engineers and technicians. There’s a ton of NASA developed technologies that are spun off and used to make life better. Ask anyone that has had their life saved by getting an MRI. That’s technology NASA drastically advanced in the 60’s.