What does WDFW value over all else?

1. FTEs (full time employee equivalents)

2. Hatcheries (look where WDFW spends its money; wildlife is a paltry distant second.)

What does WDFW value least of all?

1. The constituents who pay the taxes and buy the licenses that makes the Department's very existence possible.

Now that WDFW is working its way toward irrelevance - really, who needs them when the tribes have predominant control of the anadromous fisheries? - I think it's the perfect time to lobby the Legislature to zero out, or close to it, the General Fund monies that go to the Department. Let the Department live on license fees. Maybe they'll notice then who pays their bills, including salaries. Just maybe they will focus their attention on the constituents who fund their existence.

If I'm not mistaken, Idaho Fish & Game exists entirely on license fees with no state general fund money. Montana is a mix in that Fish, Wildlife, and Parks are in one agency, but none of my non-resident MT fishing license is used to subsidize commercial fishermen, just sport fishing, and they have lots of nice fishing accesses and boat ramps.