Originally Posted By: DrifterWA
10/24/2022

Originally Posted By: Larry B
Having on more than one occasion tried to work my way through the morass of the WDFW organizational chart as well as the WDFW decision making chart (meaning they are not necessarily one and the same) I wonder exactly how much involvement any Regional Director has on decisions being made in his or her region.



Fish committee, some Commission members and some WDFW higher ups have LOTS of authority. Hard to find list of members, probably don't want to have to answer all the emails.

Been my experience that Region Directors don't have much say so in any policy decisions.


Agreed. Seems the regional directors are just there to manage the offices, deliver bad news, and take abuse at public meetings on behalf of the real deciders. Kind of a crappy job, really... but hey, they put their hats in the ring, so....