As a former WDF/WDFW employee I have an "ownership" of sorts to my alma mater. It pains me to see what could be done better, or another way. WDFW now has too short of an institutional memory, for instance the unfortunate "Ten Year" average. I was in enforcement, so I didn't manage the fisheries, although I did have input on some regulatory changes that I did manage to change. I think WDFW is plagued by an attitude in some divisions that "If it doesn't affect me, I don't care"

One of the big questions is: Is this a service agency or a conservation agency? Acquiring more property for the public to recreate is working. Not so on salmon steelhead conservation. Providing planted trout to harvest is a resounding success, I think, and is strictly a service to anglers, not conservation. Complex agency. When I get together with former WDFW-ers the talk is always how the agency could do better, and we don't understand why it isn't..