Duck, Thanks for taking time to comment. It's mostly a waste of our breath to argue about the Boldt Decision, unless it's being done in front of the Supreme Court Justices. I grieved for twenty years over it. Now,I live with it the same way I live with air pollution. Besides rooting for the Huskies, a man's got to breathe, fish, and hunt. Whether I-696 passes or not, the fish and wildlife of this state are going to have to be cooperatively managed by tribal and non-tribal groups or we can all watch them go down the toilet. Regarding your question about nontribals intruding into areas of tribal jurisdiction-- Most game violations occur off reservation; some tribal councils already contract for nontribal police protection, I don't know how either group would accept tribal/nontribal fish and wildlife cops working in partnership(in special cases it's probably already occurring). A lot of questions would have to be answered first.

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