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Official Washington Hunting Safety Course Link to Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

Effective December 15, 2010, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife changed their guidelines for distance learning. Students are now required to spend a minimum amount of time on each course page before proceeding to the certification exam.

Click here to go to the latest version of the Today's Hunter in Washington online course—the official hunter education course of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.

The following course material is for reference only. Please go to the new course to complete your Washington certification.

11.7 Other Wildlife Management Practices

If predators kill the wildlife we enjoy hunting, why don’t we just kill all predators?

Predators are animals that kill other animals to survive. A coyote is a good example of a predator. Although they do kill animals (prey), predators don't affect stable wildlife populations! And when the prey species increases, so do the predators.

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