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bobcat:
From the Northwest Sportsman Magazine  http://nwsportsmanmag.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/abolish-wdfw/



--- Quote ---Abolish WDFW?!?
By Andy Walgamott
Abolish the Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife!?

To some it might seem a gift from on high, and a bill introduced in Olympia yesterday aims to do just that.

Senate Bill 6813, sponsored by a trio of central Pugetropolis Democrats — Senators Tom, Rockefeller and Shin — would abolish “the department of fish and wildlife and transfers its powers, duties, and functions to the department of natural resources.”

It would do away with State Parks Commission and move that department to DNR as well.

Reform of natural resource agencies has been brewing for awhile. Last year, Gov. Gregoire asked numerous departments to come up with ideas on how to reform management, reduce costs and improve service delivery in light of the state’s $9 billion budget shortfall.

However, in December, a panel recommended to her that WDFW, DNR and other departments not be bundled. Instead, WDFW would work to unify instate regions, smooth permitting, better coordinate fieldwork and identify redundancies between it, DNR and DOE.

The cutoff for bills to move out of Senate committees is midnight, Feb. 5. It must then be passed out of the full Senate by Feb. 16.

We’ve got calls in to learn more about the bill’s odds as well as the rationale behind it.

EDITOR’S NOTE: AN EARLIER VERSION OF THIS MISSTATED THE DEADLINE TO MOVE THIS BILL OUT OF THE SENATE’S NATURAL RESOURCES, OCEANS & RECREATION COMMITTEE.
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fishcrazy:
Intresting.

 I've been at the Capital working on some stuff affecting unemployment. I will keep an eye out for this one and sit in on a hearing and see what up with it.


Kris

wolfbait:
Where would defenders of wildlies go??

bearpaw:
Unfortunately I think the DNR is even greener than WDFW which could explain why the liberal dems want to abolish the WDFW. They would not have to get their agenda past the citizen commission members that way.... ;)

washelkhntr:
Definately not a good idea!  :bash:

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