If there is ever one move by a state that can destroy fish and wildlife management, it’s to consolidate all the areas of natural resources, including environmental departments into one super department. It’s mostly done under the guise of saving money but in the end costs more money and diminishes the services and the functions it is assigned to achieve.

In George Smith’s article today in the Kennebec Journal he calls Baldacci’s proposal of consolidation, “more expensive and less responsive.” Smith is Executive for the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine.

Smith says it best this way:

Maine needs small mission-focused agencies, offering excellent customer service, able to react quickly to trends and new demands, accountable for their work and decisions, and constantly repositioning themselves to serve the needs of Maine’s economy and people.

Maine does not need a super natural resource agency that will be more expensive and less responsive.

Tom Remington

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