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Opener down from last year

REPUBLIC – Opening weekend of general deer hunting season has passed and the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife reports different results from different areas.
      A weekend check station in Deer Park, which gets hunters coming from Ferry and Stevens counties, reported 91 hunters checking in this year as compared to 114 during opening weekend last year. But the number of deer harvest was the same both years – 12.

Picture notice from "The Ferry County View"

State wildlife officials are optimistic about hunter prospects for the modern firearms deer season which opened Saturday, Oct. 12, across Washington. Recent climate/weather trends favorable to both deer survival and noise abatement are the reasons for this positive expectation.
WDFW Game Program Manager Dave Ware said in a written statement on Wednesday, Oct. 9, that various populations of the three hunted deer species - mule, white-tailed and black-tailed - responded well to recent milder winter and temperate spring conditions. Ware also points to another weather influence, September's rainfall, which will be a significant boon to hunters, silencing the crunchy dried leaf-fall and ground vegetation that often gives away a stalking gunner's presence.

 Eastern Washington Bow Association
Contact Becky Metcalf

Beginning in January, Spokane police will record the race of anyone an officer questions or pulls over. The program was recommended by the Use of Force Commission Police Chief Frank Straub said the program will bring the department into compliance with requirements, and he expects the data to show officers don't question or arrest people based on their race.
http://www.krem.com/news/Spokane-police-to-record-race-of-people-stopped-228041971.html

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Picture by Ron Rattray

Washington state has approved rules for its new legal marijuana industry. After nearly a year of research, planning and public hearings, the three-member state Liquor Control Board adopted the rules Wednesday.

Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/10/12/3256170/deer-hunt-prospects-look-optimistic.html#storylink=cpy

Read more here: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/10/12/3256170/deer-hunt-prospects-look-optimistic.html#storylink=cpy