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The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission will consider adopting proposed changes to state hunting rules for deer, elk, moose and other game species during a public meeting April 11-12 in Olympia.
The commission, which sets policy for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW), will convene at 8:30 a.m. each day in Room 172 of the Natural Resources Building on the state capitol campus at 1111 Washington St. S.E.
An agenda for the meeting is available on the commission's website at: http://wdfw.wa.gov/commission/.
On Friday, April 11, the commission will consider adopting new rules for hunting in 2014 that would:
Those and other proposed changes in state hunting rules are available online at http://wdfw.wa.gov/about/regulations/development.html. The commission held public hearings on those proposals during a meeting March 7-8 in Moses Lake.
In other business, the commission will consider approving three land transactions proposed by WDFW, including the acquisition of 640 acres near Wenatchee in a partnership with Chelan County. The other transactions involve accepting the transfer of one acre of land near Yakima and the exchange of three-quarters of an acre with the City of Sumner.
The first day’s session will conclude with a briefing by WDFW staff on tribal hunting in Washington.