In my humble opinion, everyone has to justify for his/her paycheck with the boss (include ourselves in our own professions, so the USFWS is no exception to this fact).
Same situation with the boss toward his superior. And so on.
Untill we realize, there is only the wizard behind the curtain.
These things are small unreasonable actions. However, on the grand scale , when peoples follow rules/orders blindly & rigidly they can create a lot of suffering.
For example, in the Cambodian genocide (nobody is responsible for the crime, everybody just follow the order from above and so on, all the way to the top)
I don't know enough to say for other countries, but I believe countries that settled by persecuted peoples such as USA, Australia etc..generally have citizens with individualistic minds to question absurdity, and thing can be changed when it reaches absurdity)