WDFW Director Unsworth has a bad day

[pianoman9701]

thx BT.

[pianoman9701]

Here's the link to go directly to the online comments page. http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildfuture/comments.html

[olyguy79]

This is the report Unsworth was talking about: http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildfuture/

You can go in and actually read all 450 online comments. I'm sure some of your names are in there.

Can you please provide a link directly to the comments? I can't seem to find them.

The link is the same for everything. You have to click on "summaries and notes from regional listening forums" you can then break it down by a summary for each meeting or the actual individual online comments.

If you read that then the Senator is lying. There are lots of comments for increasing enforcement staffing, the Senator said that's not the case, oops it is.

I know of several of the commenters and i know what's shown is what they submitted. No editing or anything.


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[SCRUBS]

Love how he was called out for lying to them.

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If you actually read the Wild Future report it actually does say the public wants more officers. The Senator said that's not true, well I actually agree with Unsworth, it's in the report. In fact the two meetings I went to the main topic was increasing officers. So either WDFW lied and planted operatives in the meetings to support the agenda or the Senator didn't read the right report.

Support for fee increases? Not much support out there.


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I take it the Wild Future report is a summary of the publics comments?

If you actually read it you will see a meeting summary, and the actual written online submissions by citizens. Everything is mentioned from Cenci to Obama and "black ops"

I removed this post ( well tried to)because you answered my question by providing a link while I was typing, thanks for the link.

[Special T]

I liked the curt dismissal at the end. Made me smile.

[WSU]

I suspect part of his problem is that he necessarily has to rely on his staff to put a lot of that together. 

[bobcat]

There must be a little more to the story than what we see in the video. It seems the senator could have said what he had to say just a little bit nicer but I'm assuming he had his reasons, perhaps from experience in dealing with director Unsworth in the past.

[Bullkllr]

This is the report Unsworth was talking about: http://wdfw.wa.gov/wildfuture/

You can go in and actually read all 450 online comments. I'm sure some of your names are in there.

Can you please provide a link directly to the comments? I can't seem to find them.

The link is the same for everything. You have to click on "summaries and notes from regional listening forums" you can then break it down by a summary for each meeting or the actual individual online comments.

If you read that then the Senator is lying. There are lots of comments for increasing enforcement staffing, the Senator said that's not the case, oops it is.

I know of several of the commenters and i know what's shown is what they submitted. No editing or anything.


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Just a few of my thoughts and observations:

1) The senate committee seemed to have a bias from the get-go.

2) If the comments provided to the committee were in the same format as I saw online it is almost impossible to see any trend or to summarize. Some kind of a topic by topic breakdown would help tremendously. I don't think either Unsworth or the committee chair were "wrong" about the public comments, but there's way too much there.

3) Like the comments, issues the DFW is dealing with are remarkably varied and complicated.

4) None of this is good for fish, wildlife, the DFW, users, us, etc. This shows how broken the state system is. Something needs to be fixed here if were going to have any positive outcome.

[JimmyHoffa]

Think Unsworth was referring to the wild futures comments and the Senators are referring to the comments submitted for the bills regarding price increases?

[bigtex]

Think Unsworth was referring to the wild futures comments and the Senators are referring to the comments submitted for the bills regarding price increases?

I think so too

[Special T]

@bullkllr #4 is the truth. We do have a broken system and to try and gloss over that fact perpetuates the problem.

It's clear to most sportsmen that the wdfw is out of touch. I for one wish there was more of a dressing down by the state senators. He came asking for more $ and didn't make a good case, but showed he is out of touch.

[bobcat]

Reminds me of the time when the WDFW claimed to have "broad public support" for the changes they made to the special permit system several years ago. 99.9% of the people hadn't even heard about the proposal. So that was an outright lie.

[pianoman9701]

@bullkllr #4 is the truth. We do have a broken system and to try and gloss over that fact perpetuates the problem.

It's clear to most sportsmen that the wdfw is out of touch. I for one wish there was more of a dressing down by the state senators. He came asking for more $ and didn't make a good case, but showed he is out of touch.

And, they'll end up giving it to him anyway, most likely.

[ucwarden]

@bullkllr #4 is the truth. We do have a broken system and to try and gloss over that fact perpetuates the problem.

It's clear to most sportsmen that the wdfw is out of touch. I for one wish there was more of a dressing down by the state senators. He came asking for more $ and didn't make a good case, but showed he is out of touch.

And, they'll end up giving it to him anyway, most likely.

I guess only time will tell, but I do believe more people (including legislators) are beginning to understand just how broken, corrupt and dysfunctional WDFW management has become

[trophyhunt]

Wow, thanks for posting!  What a bs artist unsworth is, where do we go from here??  Not real positive about our future of fish n game in this state with him in charge.