GREAT POST!! Very informative. The 1st link (http://wdfw.wa.gov/publications/01145/wdfw_01145.pdf) lists all of the activities WDFW does, and then breaks down their cost and # of FTE's. Except at the end of page 3 it has a caveat that says:

Funding also supports: Commercial and recreational licensing; asset management; regional operations; information
technology; fiscal and budget management, public information, human resources, safety, revolving accounts; Fish and
Wildlife Commission activities; policy and executive management. Or what you could call ADMINISTRATION, and it doesn't seem to break this component of the Agency down.

The second link you post (http://wdfw.wa.gov/about/legislative/fact_sheets/2010_facing_future.pdf) has the 2009-2011 biennuim budget listed as $327.1 million dollars and 1,386 FTE's. So if you take the infomation from your 1st link and calculate:

The TOTAL you only get 1,206.6 FTEs for $252.7 million dollars of funding which averages out to around $209,431 spent per FTE (Full time equivalent employee for those of you that don't know). Where's the rest? Well if you take $327.1 minus the $252.7 you get $74.4 million left over for what I assume is the FUNDING ALSO SUPPORTS little caveat portion (23% of the TOTAL BUDGET!!!). Doing the same mah for FTEs (1,386 minus 1,206) you get 179.4 FTEs which calculates out to over $400,000 per FTE for F*#$ing ADMINISTRATIVE costs for WDFW. You've got to be kidding me!!!!!! I've seen JohnQ on other posts complain about the # of IT folks they had, but not until I reviewed the actual #'s the AGENCY ITSELF PUT OUT THERE can I say. . . that is one HELL of a BUREACRACY! Hell of a good reason to raise my licencse fee right?!

Goes back to the classic 2 old government rules: 1) Bureacracies must grow or die; 2) Bureacracies never die.