Those fish biologists from the 1970’s were doing the best they could under the circumstances they found themselves in. But one thing I’ve learned over that same time span is that we don’t need to manage these fish for them to survive. We need to manage the people and their impacts on the landscape.

These fish have been around for thousands of years. They don’t need us to ‘manage’ them to survive. In fact, they will do quite well without us. They just need us to get out of their way. They’ll be fine if we do that. But it seems like we just can’t.