So she actually said that her focus would remain on making decisions guided by "sound science and the public trust?" I almost hurt myself laughing.

The lack of public trust is directly attributable to her abject failure to accept the science as provided by her professional biologists.

She clearly lives in a self-induced world of denial.

My interaction with the commission was mostly done 10 years ago but I have followed them. What I have trouble understanding is just how and the h--- they got where they are at. This is followed by what an idiot the governor was on resource issues to have appointed these folks. I mean it is liked being forced to watch the movie Dumb and Dumber every day every week. I mean like it is painful !!!!

I think the real decline started first with Boldt and then when we had the initiatives that banned traps, hounds, and so on.

The agency(s) did a really poor job of explaining why things were done. What the constraints were, what biology said, and so on. This was both internal external because I know (as doe Rivrguy) that internally there were staff who imitated 2x4s as well folks on the outside.

This was followed by continuing shift in folks with no actual hands-on contact with the resources and with the users and with the observers.

The Senate bears some of the blame because at times over the last 20-30 years they did not an actually confirm some nominees, they just punted. Couple that with an anti-use governor and it slides downhill.

Things will never go back to the "way they were" because we have many more people, much less accessible land, fewer resources, and escalating costs that folks are unwilling to pay.

But Dumber and Dumber is an apt description.