Game Wardens Reject State Penitentiary Farm Plan
County officials clash with state leadership, fearing a new game farm would function merely as a political job site.
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Game wardens of the several counties who assembled in North Yakima last Tuesday at the annual state convention placed their stamp of disapproval on establishing a state game farm at the penitentiary. This plan, which was urged by State Game Warden Darwin and Chief Deputy Wales, was opposed by the county wardens on the grounds that a farm at the penitentiary would serve to create a political job rather than to promote game propagation. No decision, however, was reached other than to take the question up again at an adjourned meeting in Tacoma, December 10. Benton county was represented at the meeting by County Warden M. D. O'Connell.
“A farm at the penitentiary would serve to create a political job rather than to promote game propagation.”
Conflicts between local control and state-level administrative directives remain a staple of Washington civic life. This 1916 dispute over the efficiency and ethics of state institutions mirrors modern debates regarding the intersection of public resources, bureaucratic bloat, and environmental management.
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