Thank you, Larry, for making the long trip and sharing the details. After reading through your comments, my immediate impression was that the Director and his Managers have "circled their wagons" to somehow create a defense of relying on strength in numbers...pointing the finger of blame at the Feds, the Commissioners and a few misinformed radicals out there in the public.

Until the Management Group comes clean on just exactly how the 8% quota was applied to the Stilly situation, AND ALLOWED TO REMAIN AT THAT FIGURE WHEN BEING SIGNED OFF BY THE DIRECTOR, thus warranting his approval...their feet remain in the fire. More and more stakeholders, businessmen, and patrons are becoming aware daily of how this nightmare is shaking out.

This MP would have all been "fait accompli", and on its way to implementation, had not the Commission taken exception to being excluded in the policy-making procedure. Ironically, WDFW is pushing forward in this process as though nothing out of the ordinary has happened--and we, collectively, are not buying a word of it.

There is no better example of making the case for mandatory transparency in the dealings of the Dep't. than what has transpired, and is being spun as reality.

I look forward to hearing the audio record of the proceedings--if only it were more comical than pathetic...