I admit I do agree with you on this issue. Prior to this decade WDFW Officers were only able to enforce hunting and fishing laws. However in the past 10 years WDFW Officers became general authority officers which means they can enforce any law of the state no matter if it's traffic, drugs, and so on. The thought was that WDFW Officers come in contact with general authority crimes all the time while in the woods (especially drug and alcohol violations) and instead of having to call the WSP or Sheriff Dept to respond to handle the situation the legislature gave WDFW Officers the authority to handle any criminal activities by thereself. Great idea however some officers have taken it to the extreme. There are some WDFW Officers who make traffic stops for things such as expired tabs, stop sign violations, speeding and so on. Should a WDFW Officer be doing that? Probably not. Now if a person was DUI would I want a WDFW Officer to stop the person, yes because they are dangerous.

I have worked with officers from many different natural resource agencies across the country and I have noticed one thing. In agencies where the officers have full police authority (and most in the US now do) the younger officers tend to be more like police officers (enforcing all laws) and the older officers tend to be more like game wardens (sticking strictly to fish and wildlife laws)