If 27,000 spring Chinook in the Chehalis was ever real, it could never happen again because the environment of the springer spawning areas is forever changed. Skookumchuck, Newwaukum, and upper Chehalis are all commercial tree farms. Springer habitat needs old growth forest ecology here on the west side of the state.

The 1400 escapement goal looks like those Chinook escapement goals set by WDF in the late 1960s, early 1970s, where they took the average escapement of the preceeding 10 years and set that as the goal. Talk about a system that never set the bar too high, that one is perfect!