Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Sometimes I think the process is designed to shed light on a project while in other cases the process is designed to conceal.

At best, that should be an MDNS as there are effects of the cultured fish on the wild runs and effects of the culture itself on the environment.

I don't think the department treats their own projects the way they would treat someone else's. If a developer, for instance, was going to build something that would have an effect on abundance and productivity of natural spawning steelhead in the Calawah, and there was evidence that this would occur, would they be willing to say there was no significance to that developer's project? Not on your life!