I was wondering , with all the bull shiiit thats going on in washington state on fishing and hunting just who the hell dreams up these rules?

Years ago a fed Rep from a agricluture state remarked he knew what congress did but what he wanted know was the name of Ag Dept employee in the bowells of the concrete bunker that was writing these stupid regs. Kinda the same thing.

At one time it was staff. Actual hands-on staff. Now, most pop the contentious stuff in Fish is done by negotiators and staff (may) get a chance to improve/fix it.

Don't know about Wildife but it likely used to be regional staff as each Region was a Fiefdom.

Also, in the dim past there were office folks whose job it was to ensure readability, compliance with laws. make sense, enforceability. That's all gone out the door. See Greg Haw's books.