Over the last several years, we’ve done a lot of reporting on how Washington state manages its wildlife.⁠ ⁠ The reason for this is that Washington has been a clear example of how anti-hunting philosophy can creep into a state’s wildlife management strategy and lead to absurd hunting restrictions. The Sportsmen’s Alliance, a national hunting advocacy group, has been digging into the records of the wildlife commissioners there and uncovered some shocking documents. They say these documents demonstrate a pattern of public exclusion, bad governance, and collusion. For example, one of the emails they uncovered shows how the commissioners attempted to create an alternative narrative after a 9-year-old girl was attacked and brutally mauled by a mountain lion in 2022. The girl, Lily Kryzhanivskyy, was playing hide and seek at a kids camp when she was attacked. An email from commissioner Lorna Smith to the other commissioners suggests she did not like how the media was covering the attack and i...