4Salt,,

I see where there are 208 harvested cougars on that spread sheet and 23 depradation and 21 safety removals.

I just reviewed the document from Dave Britteil Asst Director of the WDFW December 9 1996 about the request from the House Natural Resource Committe for an assessment of the impacts of I-655

It clearly states in there the harvest reports from the cougar "permit" season to be 283 cougars harvested for 1995. They issued 446 permits for an 81% success rate.
Now they basically give away the cougar permit for like, 5 dollars. This is to get everyone out in the woods to be shooting at cougars in hopes they will keep harvests #'s up.

I have the economy impacts that was presented to the committee, they are in the millions for bear and cougar.
I also have revenue numbers that were lost due in fact to the I-655 and also expendatures that were incurred by the WDFW post I-655 (which measure in the millions each year)
I have a harvest data report that goes back prior to the bounty (1935)
I even have a chart that shows in 1995 that there were 10 problem cougars killed by WDFW (that number has sure increased)
Matter of fact we had a revenues for just the cougar that was close to 600,000 and post I-655 WDFW reports an expendature of 1.3 million.. Wouldnt you like seeing that 1.3 million a year going somewhere else?

This is a hard copy report in front of me. I would be more than happy to make copies of it and snail mail it to you!