BILL · 2005–06 SESSION

SB 5881: Cougar survey & management

Concerning a cougar survey and management program.

Summary

Finds that: (1) Washington's increasing cougar and human populations, and decreasing cougar habitat, create new management challenges; (2) The Washington department of fish and wildlife, the agency with authority over cougar control, acknowledges responding to over five hundred complaints a year regarding urban sightings, attacks on livestock and pets, and cougar confrontations with humans; (3) A 1996 initiative…

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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to a cougar survey and management program;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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