Inslee: No New Taxes after Car Tab Initiative Passes, Hello Higher User Fees!

[WildlifeAssassin]

1.6 million for this:

“For more than 20 years, Francine has successfully intervened in controversial fish and wildlife conflicts using these issues as entry points to target the deeper-rooted, systemic conflicts that underpin natural resource challenges. By reconciling identity-based conflict and transforming dialogue and decision-making processes, Francine enables stakeholders to collaboratively target the underlying psychological, social, political, structural, and cultural issues that make these wildlife conflicts seem intractable. Her work through CPeace has resulted in long-term, positive, creative solutions for government agencies, diverse stakeholders, and interest groups around some of the world’s most controversial, polarizing, and complex conservation challenges.”

https://cpeace.ngo/

This is how the world is being subverted. NGOs run by leftist women pushing “identity based politics.” If this is what WDFW wants to spend money on their pleas to sportsmen will fall on deaf ears. It is well passed time for the WDFW to remove their heads from their own rectums.

[KFhunter]

They need purged, that crap pisses me off to no end

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[huntnphool]

Where do you think the choke point is? Who can unclog it? How?

The only fix is significant general fund (taxes) money. WDFW can't operate as a user funded agency. I am old enough to remember the old Dept of Fisheries and Dept of Wildlife and their budget issues. DOF was flush with money because they were funded with general fund money because of the commercial fishing aspect, your recreational fishing license dollars went into the general fund. DOW was about as poor as could be because they were mainly user funded from hunting licenses. You would actually have Wildlife Officers using hand-me-down gear that was previously used by Fisheries Officers.

During the recession there was less general fund money so the legislature made WDFW more user funded and made it so all hunting/fishing fees went into the wildlife fund. Now the general fund has a good chunk of money in it however it's getting sucked out to fund education due to the Supreme Court McCleary decision and now to replace the loss revenue from I-976.

Other states seem to manage being funded solely by license sales...

Very few do. And the ones that do are inland states that don't have to deal with the myriad and costly fisheries issues. Just from the few random states that I could find:

Idaho Fish & Game: 34% of their budget funded by license fees
Texas Parks & Wildlife: 30% of their budget funded by license fees (not including park passes)
Colorado Parks & Wildlife: 54% of their budget funded by license fees however this includes Park passes since Colorado Parks merged with CO Wildlife
Oregon Fish & Wildlife: 26% of their budget funded by license fees
South Dakota Wildlife & Parks: 50% of their wildlife/fisheries budget funded by license fees
California Fish & Wildlife: 21% of their budget funded by license fees
Nevada Wildlife: 45% of their budget funded by license fees

 What % goes into WDFW budget?

[opdinkslayer]

1.6 million for this:

“For more than 20 years, Francine has successfully intervened in controversial fish and wildlife conflicts using these issues as entry points to target the deeper-rooted, systemic conflicts that underpin natural resource challenges. By reconciling identity-based conflict and transforming dialogue and decision-making processes, Francine enables stakeholders to collaboratively target the underlying psychological, social, political, structural, and cultural issues that make these wildlife conflicts seem intractable. Her work through CPeace has resulted in long-term, positive, creative solutions for government agencies, diverse stakeholders, and interest groups around some of the world’s most controversial, polarizing, and complex conservation challenges.”

https://cpeace.ngo/

This is how the world is being subverted. NGOs run by leftist women pushing “identity based politics.” If this is what WDFW wants to spend money on their pleas to sportsmen will fall on deaf ears. It is well passed time for the WDFW to remove their heads from their own rectums.

  like I said feed the bureaucrats to the wolves. Radical environmentalists have no place in fish & game management.

[wags]

I bought tags for nearly 40 years in WA, I'm pretty much done. 

Most I'll probably do is buy bear and cougar.

I was done two years ago; feels good.