What is up, everybody? Mark on the mic here, and I am joined by Dr. Todd Atkins from the

Sportsman's Alliance today. Todd, we did a podcast just a couple weeks ago, Ryan and myself, we were

highlighting, you know, different things going on throughout the country with different, you know,

state game agencies, some regulation

changes, some good, some positive, some that may be a little bit up in the air. And boy,

one thing that stood out, I guess as far as a current event, is the stuff going on in Washington

State right now, which I would say you guys are spearheading. Todd, it appears the Sportsman's Alliance has shown a spotlight on what I would consider

some serious and gross misconduct within, possibly extending far outside the state

fish and wildlife commission.

We gave an overview, I'd say, but definitely want to dig into this topic with you today,

how it affects Washington State.

And I guess, you know, definitely implications or things that other states are going to want to be looking out for themselves.

Yeah, we've been, you know, it's funny, it's now back in 23 that we issued our first, it's a FOIA request. Most people, most of your listeners and watchers will be familiar with freedom of information. Well, in Washington, that's called the Public Records Act. We issued our first request for documents for communications way back in 23. And believe

or not, right now we're sitting on about 50 to 60,000 such documents. And it could be in the six

figures, the number of pages, the level of corruption and insider dealing and backroom meetings and the ideology, this animal

extremism, this anti-hunting approach to the world generally, even for me with all this gray

hair, working in it for our community over 30 years, I cannot believe what we've uncovered. So we're very excited

about helping to get this ship steered in the right direction, quite frankly. And because we have a

litigation team, we're kind of uniquely suited to do that. You got to show up in a court of law and enforce

existing law and other rules and regulations. So I got to show up in a court of law and enforce existing law and other rules and

regulations. So I got to tell you, it's not just about Washington for us. This is what the

animal extremist anti-hunting groups have been after for a long time. Take over the fishing

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