Ok people,
Here it is, I don't know if any of you understand the grave situation we are in as sportsman with the WDFW and there lack of enforcement/ Information officers to properly serve us as sportsman and to protect the resources that we all love. After many conversations and observations I can clearly see that the higher ups in the WDFW and Enforcement do not have a clue on how to run, train, educate and staff the personel that they are putting out in the field to help us out and protect our resource. In a nutshell they are trying to run there enforcement officers like a police organization which it is not. They are suppossed to be resource officers, people who have a passion for fishing and hunting and want to protect the resource that it here for the next generation as well. Yes they are suppose to right tickets to offenders and educate those who have mistakenly done wrong. But they are not suppossed to be out looking for dope grows and pulling over speeders and such.
Also I don't know if you have noticed but we live in a very diverse state. We have every ethinic group that there is out recreating and enjoying the outdoors. Do you know that we have no Black officers, no Asian Officers, no middle eastern officers, no Indian officers and only 1 hispanic officer!! If you go to any average size police dept. in this state you will see officers of every race and of both genders. WDFW has ZERO diversity which makes them look like a bunch of redneck, white supremisist officers. This needs to change, especially being that you have a large number of Asian and african american sportsman.

It is time that we as sportsman ask the questions and take this to the commission and legislature and start the wheels of change. If we don't do something now we will lose the right to our resource. We need to form a group or a colalition to present the issues at hand to the commission and legislature to get the wheels of change moving and to hire a new batch of officers to compliment the under staffed group we have now and to add some diversity to the group to properly serve the diverse population of sportsman out there.

I know to some of you this sounds strange coming from me with my somewhat colorful past, but I do care about the resource and the people who protect it so lets stand up and take notice and help ourselves out.

Peace
Fly