"You are not very well informed about the habitat on the Olympic Peninsula. Most people aren’t because they don’t make a living working as a habitat/stock assessment biologist. In reality, it has been very well documented that when compared to even 50 years ago, these OP streams have a drastically reduced carrying capacity in regards to natural production of wild salmonids. You really need to get out there and observe what has happened.

Talk to some professionals that have made spent decades documenting, monitoring, and observing this massively depressing phenomenon."


Well you might be right, on the informed bit but I can tell you this.....My whole teaching career was at Aberdeen High School, my rooms were on the 2nd floor of the Phillips Building, they faced to the South.....toward the Chehalis River...I could not "see the river" but I could see the South Aberdeen bridge and the thousands of ships leaving the harbor many of them loaded with "old growth timber". The harbor was booming, jobs everywhere, mills ran 24/7....times were good. The demand for wood was high....cut, cut, cut....new ways to mow the trees down faster.

The wife and I attend "Loggers Day" in 1968 and many years after that.....what I remember was 50-60 log trucks with 1 log loads in the parade. I still see log trucks, not very many, but no more 1 log loads.....some times it looks like there are 50 pecker pole logs to a truck log.

Did all the "cutting of trees" cause all the current problems ???? I don't think so, BUT IT SURE HASN'T HELPED. Oh the people that worked and invested thier money have few problems but try to find a job, pretty tough go!!!!