Don't forget, Geoduck, that to get the State to pay their legal costs, all these things must happen;

1. WT files a lawsuit
2. WDFW is violating the law
3a. WDFW loses at trial, or
3b. WDFW and WT settle, and WDFW agrees to pay some or all of their costs.

In most situations, WDFW has to be breaking the law to pay legal costs for someone else. There's not really any excuse for breaking the law...that's why citizen suit provisions exist in environmental statutes.

Fish on...

Todd.