“ Also, the Green River has, according to spawner surveys, lost most of the tributary spawners. Now, it's mostly mainstem.“

True !

The Green is and has lost the entire Burns Creek tributary. Producing wild Coho, Wild Chum, Cutthroat, Rainbow, and the occasional spring Steelhead.

It has gone from producing hundreds of paired up spawners, while providing summer habitat while rearing Wild Coho young, and the other trout and salmon fingerlings just 15 years ago, to nothing on any salmonid front this entire fall season. For all intents and purpose, the creek is now dead.

Heartbreaking actually, after all the time and $$$ spent on habitat and restoration. Even with King county and Wa. state owning about 1/3 of the habitat along Burns Creek property, they have managed to do nothing in the last two years to save this Green River tributary, while allowing it to die.