Posted: 6/17/2008 10:36:27 PM EDT
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I used to go up North Fork Road in rural Washougal to go shooting on DNR land in the Yacolt Burn State Forest. This is state DNR land, with active logging, four wheeling, drunken asshattery, and littering going on up there. In another thread about shooting spots, it was told that there is a new sign at the school bus trun around where North Fork Road meets DNR land that just says "No Shooting", and references a couple of state "laws": WAC 332.52 RCW 43.30 I cannot find anything in there about "No Shooting", but that doesn't mean it's not in there. Can someone help me nail this down so I an call up my local DNR office and bitch about how they are closing public land from public use? I have used the search feature for the state legislature to teh best of my ability, and can find nothing that says "no shooting". TIA! |
Well, the RCW appears to just be an outline of their authority, however the WAC COULD be translated to give them a reason to ban shooting: apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=332-52-030
You could VAGUELY translate that as authority over audible devices such as firearms...vaguely. Of course they may be miss reading this one: apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=332-52-040
By miss reading it, I mean they ignored the word "developed" |
Interesting. The only other signs I've seen for no shooting have nothing written on them about laws or ownership. I'll have to stop and look at the Skamania sign on top of Bear Prairie and see what codes it lists, I'm pretty sure it lists some. Clark is pretty unrestricted out side of the towns. |
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Up by Concrete there used to be a shooting spot that got closed down. So I drove the logging road up till it ended. Those signs were every place until I got up top. I ran into a DNR guy and asked him what was up with the signage he said there were houses up in the hills so DNR posted do not shoot. In the drive up the last mile I saw no signs, so I asked if it was ok there. He said it's state land and you can shoot here just clean up. So I shot. Then I loaded the 4 newly dumped tires that were on top of the recent snow  Dumping trash gets more spots shut down than anything. I have no idea if the house thing was BS or not, I know there are houses up in that area tho. |
