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By Russ Mohney
For The Chronicle
When the state announced a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, most people
just shrugged their shoulders and tightened up the home budget accordingly.

State agencies, on the other hand, had a choice of cutting back on
expenditures, raising more money, or asking employees to help shoulder the
burden.

Some did both. Some did "none of the above."

Which brings us to the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.



Their top administrator (Jeff Koenings in case you forgot) cut his
personal losses and well-deserved embarrassment by resigning - the day after
the governor finally admitted we had a budget problem - and his lieutenants
took over.

Their first move was to cut costs by dumping field biologists and
enforcement officers, the front line in the WDFW. The people who actually do
the bulk of the work were gone, so nothing got done. Further cuts wouldn't
do, WDFW upper concluded, or else administrators might have to actually
work.

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