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Participants press WDFW on funding, regulatory effect and species management during SWAP briefing
Summary
Attendees asked whether the SWAP is regulatory, how it is funded, how it will inform local permitting, and about controversial topics such as predator management and barred-owl control; WDFW said the plan is informational and funding is mixed across federal, state and partner sources.
During the question-and-answer portion, participants pressed WDFW staff on the plan's regulatory role, funding sources, and species-management practices.
On regulation, Margin Carlson, conservation director at the Department of Fish and Wildlife, said the SWAP is intended as a source of best-available science rather than a regulatory instrument: "The state wildlife action plan isn't regulatory in and of itself," she said, while noting WDFW…
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