Rats and Drat! Screwed up again. Oh, well, I'll try again.then I'll fold
my tent and silently steal away and do a buck and a wing off the stage
before I get the hook
Wildlife
Watching - l996
..
Category National Washington
State

People participating
62.9 million l.62l million
Total expenditures
$29.2 billion $875.3 million
Total industry output
$85.4 billion $1.45 billion
Employment
l,0l0,000 jobs 2l,454 jobs
Employment income $24.2
billion $426.9 million
Sales tax revenue
$l.04 billion $56.9 million
Wildlife watchers
62.9 million l.62l million
Spectator sport watchers 73.8
million

Oh, yes, I've sent a lot of data to a
number of state legislators. I'm afraid that I'll
be the only one to do so. Sigh!
The broken down old wildlife
biologist/refuge manager/administrator who tried to do
his job while falling out of trees,
falling down cliffs, swept of rocky islandsby high
seas, wound up in the hospital two times
by just doing his job, got bitten by tagging
800 seals, clobbered by 300 lb. sea
turtles while tagging over 500, packpacked on the job
in one of the wettest spots in the world,
struggled in hipboot deep mud and marshes
picking up sick and dying ducks and geese,
getting puked on while banding umpteen
thousand albatross, trying to help 30
species of endangered Hawaiian endangered
species of birds and a few other minor
things like that. But what the hell do I know.
Eugene Kridler, Sequim