Attorney General Gentner Drummond gave ODWC until 5 p.m. Monday to rescind policies targeting tribal members hunting and fishing without state licenses on reservations, as well as related pending citations. If department officials don’t act, he said, litigation is inevitable. This was all addressed to the state agency’s director, Wade Free, in a letter sent on Nov. 13.
To discuss Drummond’s letter, the commissioners of ODWC gathered in Oklahoma City on Monday morning to decide whether to enter an executive session; however, they were unable to do so due to a lack of a statutory provision on the agenda.
No official decisions were made during the meeting, but some commissioners expressed frustration…