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[thatmountaindad]

This one is easy to answer with google earth.

Look aerial pics of extreme eastern Washington and north Idaho. The watersheds are similar (Sullivan vs priest, p.o river vs the moyie). Look at logging practices....vastly different. Look at animal densities.....vastly different. Look at politics.....vastly different.

What the pic doesn't show is that you cannot ride an atv or snowmobile in 99.9% of Washington and hunting season in Idaho is measured in months vs days in Washington.

Eastern Wash

This one is easy to answer with google earth.

Look aerial pics of extreme eastern Washington and north Idaho. The watersheds are similar (Sullivan vs priest, p.o river vs the moyie). Look at logging practices....vastly different. Look at animal densities.....vastly different. Look at politics.....vastly different.

What the pic doesn't show is that you cannot ride an atv or snowmobile in 99.9% of Washington and hunting season in Idaho is measured in months vs days in Washington.

Eastern Washington is solidly right leaning and unless it’s USFS land, the county grants logging permits. As for federal land, Washington and Oregon fall under a different USFS jurisdiction than Northern Idaho.

Same thing with snowmobile laws. County and city can regulate. Seems like the differences aren’t as easily as generalizing based on the political leaning of the state. And that’s my point. People need to stop politicizing everything into this binary BS two party thinking. If people are passionate about hunting and preserving that tradition, why do we have to force that passion into a single political party?

 

[Wrench]

Eastern Wash


Eastern Washington is solidly right leaning and unless it’s USFS land, the county grants logging permits. As for federal land, Washington and Oregon fall under a different USFS jurisdiction than Northern Idaho.

Same thing with snowmobile laws. County and city can regulate. Seems like the differences aren’t as easily as generalizing based on the political leaning of the state. And that’s my point. People need to stop politicizing everything into this binary BS two party thinking. If people are passionate about hunting and preserving that tradition, why do we have to force that passion into a single political party?

The guys in usk have to go to priest to ride anything good because Washington is off limits. They are protecting a caribou and wolves where in Idaho it's not the same. Idaho did lose trapper burn area to the bou, but by and large is 100% more friendly.

And look at roads. Take petit lake area for example....Washington fs management decides to close the roads that tie into the lake from the east. Look at it now. They lost it to fire where those very roads could have provided access and breaks.