People who know the agency tend to like it, but few know about it. That should go a long way toward bringing the agency into the information age. That has been resisted in the past, but you have to admit that Department of Game and Inland Fisheries title is cumbersome, and not entirely accurate. The agency needs to recognize the importance of marketing. The education department needs to be beefed up and brought in line with the game and fish divisions.
Information needs to be dispatched to the media while it still is news.
Just this week the 1999 fish citation report was made public, two months later than it should have been. It is much the same with hunting kill figures. The department needs to make its field offices more consumer friendly. Staff members and citizens should be given the freedom to speak without fear of becoming the enemy of the agency. Capital fund issues merit the highest priority.