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State Board Presidents Message for June,
We have some great news to report on. With our WDFW commission there has been a push by some of the animal rights groups and anti hatchery groups to move away from hunting and fishing. There has been an effort by many of us including the tribes and hunting groups to protect fishing and hunting. A letter was found that was sent to previous governor Inslee on continuing on to reappoint Tim Ragen to the Commission after expiring. Which we got with Fergusons office and Senate chair Mike Chapman to not reappoint him. This happened. A letter was sent by Washington Wildlife First and Wild Fish Conservancy against tribes. Our Hatchery Coalition that PSA is a member of pushed hard to remove the new WDFW Commission Conservation and Best Available Science Policy. The tribes disagreed as they are Comanagers and did not approve of it. Now it is dead finally. We testified against it as we want to keep it the way it is.

The other issue is that the Sportsman's Alliance sent a petition to Governor Ferguson to remove 4 sitting commissioners. There is a lot of information that has been intercepted that makes a good chance that some or all could be removed? Other groups have this information too. I have been privy to some of it. There is a lot going on and coming up that you should stay tuned for. We just want our commission to follow their mandate and not try to change it.

We have been working on these issues for quite some time now. Join your local PSA Chapter.

· Ron Garner President PSA