This bill would send us back several decades where politics trumped conservation in clandestine settings instead of open public meetings.

HB 1097 is in direct conflict of Referendum 45 that was initiated by the legislature and sent to the public for vote in 1995 regarding transparency through open meetings when it came to administering of the fish and wildlife of this state through the F&W commission.

HB 1097 is a step in the wrong direction dictating closed door policy that the legislature and voters of 1995 were totally against.