We've allowed a few in WDFW to set the agenda for us. They've done a terrible job the last decade. They are often wrong, but never in doubt! We continue to see the failures of a recovery direction clearly out of whack. The most frustrating factor to me is that I have heard and continue to hear solutions verbalized and articulated at regional and Commission meetings, but staff continues to trump the public. I have respect for several of the commissioners, especially Carpenter, but some of the others are, at a minimum, confused or just plain stupid. If the department is being run like a business (which it isn't), I would correlate it to Sears: From great, to abjectly failing, and soon to be kaput.

I will now speak sacrilege: It's time to get rid of the Commission, at least in its current form, or go back to a director who reports directly to the governor. As it now stands, we aren't putting any heat on our incumbent governor, are we?

I have hope for Sussewind, but he has a hell of a hill to climb.