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WDFW is Staying Put

I emailed Senator Patty Murray then emailed the link to everyone in my address book.

Just got home and found this email.

Dear Tracey,
Late yesterday evening the Senate Ways and Means Committee adopted an amendment to the 2010 Supplemental Budget that maintains the Department of Fish and Wildlife as a separate entity from the Department of Natural Resources. You will recall CCA Washington issued an action alert to our members a few days ago informing that the earlier version of this budget proposed merging WDFW into DNR.

In response to thousands of e-mails and phone calls from CCA members, supporters and friends, legislators modified this budget to keep WDFW in place. Budget cuts for WDFW and DNR are part of this new amendment. We will be communicating more about these cuts and the amendment in the near future. For now we wanted you to know this is a significant win for CCA and for the citizens of Washington. You are to be congratulated for this success and no further e-mails to your legislators on this topic are necessary at this time.

Sincerely,

CCA Washington

I just received the above email from Marshall and Tracey(owners Fish Country Sports)in Ethel, WA in response to their efforts.

I also received the same info via email from Kathy Smith(Director Pierce Co Parks).
Thanx to everyone that emailed, wrote and called. This was a win for sportsmen in WA. Congrats everyone.

Mark

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Comment by chad huffman on February 28, 2010 at 12:06am: where did our states bail out money go i sure dont see it putting people back to work. i think that should be there main focus. if they didnt tax the business owners so much it would be more money for them to hire workers. sorry i know i got off subject i just wonder what the hell they do all day lol.

Comment by Shawn O'Connell on February 27, 2010 at 8:47pm: You have to love Washington State politics and economic strategies. It is nice though to see that budget cuts are being made although there are other agencies that should be gone through first. They keep asking us business owners to tighten our belts and pay more taxes so it is nice to see them tighten theirs although I'm sure they will figure out how to get it out of us somehow.

Comment by Mark Wells on February 27, 2010 at 6:56pm: I have that info saved somewhere but cannot find the break down right now. Actually the WDFW gets its money from a lot of different places besides license fees. Pittman Robertson Act is one. Wallop-Breaux Tax is another.

Comment by chad huffman on February 27, 2010 at 4:31pm: i have a question im not too up on the legistrative stuff but i thought with the revenue we bring in for hunting and fishing we were self maintaing. i didnt know wdfw recieved money out of the state budget i thought they ran off revenue from liscensing?

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