C'man,

WDFW has high expertise in matters of fish biology and ecology. Problems seem to arise when technical line staff are promoted and move into management positions. I've thought for a long time that when they are sent to those management retreats, some potion is poured into the policy punch bowl, and when they return to their agencies they have lost their grounding in honesty and commitment to public service.

I think at the next Commission meeting I will ask the Commissioners to direct the Director to ban the use of the terms "transparent" and "transparency" in letters and emails from the agency to members of the constituent public until such time as they actually walk the talk. I'm finding it insulting, condescending, and patronizing to read that term in communications dishonestly informing me that they have adopted an action for fish conservation reasons, when in fact they adopted the action because one or more treaty tribes coerced them to.