You know like anything else there are some things we might all agree with and some things we won’t. But referring to Eileen and similar employees pushed out over the years as “a cancer” is rude and frankly unnecessary. It makes me glad she probably doesn’t read HT. I’ve read examples of people saying why putting her on leave is wrong, and the good things she’s done for her staff, the public, and the resource, but the few comments on here I’ve seen suggesting otherwise fail to provide anything substantive or even a hint as to why they feel her leave was justified.
It takes a certain mindset to go into public service. Especially given the time, money, and emotional sacrifices working for an outfit like FWP takes. Most of the people that work there do it because they care about something bigger than themselves. Why else would they? It ain’t the pay, it ain’t the love and admiration they get from the majority of people they serve or the folks on HT.. Are they perfect? No. Do they get it wrong sometimes? Hells Yes. There are great people with FWP still and right now a lot of them need support. You can still disagree with them about mule deer management, how the BMA program is run, harvest surveys, etc. but still recognize that something is off, and has been off, for some time. I have my ideas about what that common denominator is and it ain’t the folks like Eileen.
Some folks needed/probably need a hard look at their employment for sure, but the fact that Eileen has had such a large showing of support from numerous well-respected retired biologists/writers/conservationists in this state is telling. When has there been a GoFundMe account established for something like this? If it comes out later that I’m wrong, sorry for my misjudgment. If it comes out that this is indeed a crock, and yet another symptom of something larger and ‘wronger’ within this state, I hope you reflect on that a bit moving forward.
