Thanks for setting me straight on who appoints whom.

Perhaps I should have simply said the commission, for whatever reason, has not been effective, despite what appears to me as being willing to stick up for us. I suspect politics are to blame for that outcome at some point....

I recalled from involvement in North of Falcon that the Commission somehow delegates season-setting to the WDFW Director. I found it.

If you look at the 2017 NOF Policy, you'll see the Delegation of Authority at the bottom. You'll find that in all their policy docs, and I think it does a lot to explain why what we hear from the commission is so seldom reflected in the resulting rules.