I think the new director is really trying to do a good job and is succeeding in alot of areas. The WDFW is still populated with the good old boys who allowed our fisheries to be depleted for the sake of their commercial fishing buddies in the last 30 years. Escapement goals were rarely met for decades. Today Governor Locke's appointees on the WDFW commission seem to still favor commercial fishing when they can get away with the favoritism. So don't sit back with your fishing rod thinking that just because we sportsmen and women spent so much money the WDFW is going to set things up to benefit us over the other user groups. NO..We have to continue to fight for what we want.