If land is privately owned/held there isn't alot the WDFW can do about it....First some land owners wouldn't care, and would rather not see their privacy invaded or abuse of the land happen. The WDFW can't just shell out thousands if not millions of dollars to buy access rights or land from private land owners when land owners would put a high price to begin with when a government agency is shelling out cash$. Those land owners will be fist inline trying to get a piece of the pie. Not to mention, the debate over where to spread those funds could be enormous and politically controversial. More importantly, if we as WDFW licence holders would take some intiative we might be able to persuade our state government into allocating all funds generated by recreational/sport fishing -BACK INTO WHERE IT CAME FROM! As it now stands most of the revenue that is gathered by WDFW and sport fishing and hunting in this state goes into a GENERAL "State" FUND. After that, the State puts the monies where they see fit. Which might be programs like I405 improvements etc. --That is rediculous!(for us) We must stand up and fight against that! If the way in which they designated these revenues were to change, maybe then, money could be allocated and put towards insuring fishing access, improvements, trash collection etc, etc... Let's think about this folks. Hey, "Smalma" & "Salmo G", if your reading this and you work for the WDFW give us your inputs......
Good Fishing, Darin