Lorna Smith appointed to state Fish and Wildlife Commission:

Quote from Ms. Smith:

"And while changes to how the department is funded may not be feasible in the upcoming state legislative session due to the financial impacts of COVID-19, Smith said she would like to explore other funding options due to a trending pattern of declining hunting and fishing license sales [2020 will likely be an outlier in terms of increased license sales].
A reliable, dependable source of funding has been hunters and fishers, and I would like to see that tent expanded. And it’s a difficult time to be coming in with that focus, especially in a 90-day legislative session that will be focused on the pandemic as it needs to be. So some of these ideas may not come up or come to fruition until we have recovered.”

This should prickle the hair on the backs of many sportsmen. The way this sounds to me is she is saying is that she wants to find more "ecologically friendly" sources of revenue (Perhaps like from groups like "Wild Fish Conservancy" so the policies coming out of the Commission in the future will no longer need to consider the potential impact of reduced license revenue if it negatively impacts fishing and hunting.

What you're seeing is the beginning of the end of recreational fishing and hunting in this state...