I admire your interest in learning more about the logic train in the Minter/White River spring Chinook hatchery programs. Cynical me thinks you are trying to find the logic train in the black hole of State/Mucklehoot/Puyallup tug of wars. Reading the recent White River Stock Profiles in the Puget Sound Harvest Management Plan and the old NOAA PS Recovery Plan, Minter Creek production is barely mentioned. At one time getting the Minter Creek/Hupp Springs program was vitally important. But the track record and reliable returns to the White River system in the last 10-20 years has made the Minter program only the insurance against a rarest catastrophe in the White. Continuing the Minter program with ad clips would still provide this insurance. IMO the tribes dont wanna clip em.