The sad environmental situation is this: For more than sixty years the Deschutes had a salmon run that produced naturally spawning salmon, permitted by fish ladders. The natural spawning run created a healthy ecosystem for many miles upstream until it was blocked by the falls near Weyerhaeuser country. Bears, birds, streamside foliage, salmonids and many other critters thrived in an agri/wilderness environment. HPA enforcement was vigorous to protect salmon, etc. Now the Chinook run does not exist above salmon spawning structure! WDFW a few years ago decided to kill any component of a natural producing run, disregarding the ecosystem health. Now all surplus salmon are sold, mostly for catfood or fertilizer. Despite this, the river is OPEN to salmon fishing without salmon in it to be harvested! Talking out of both sieds of its bureaucratic mouth about creating opportunity, WDFW contradicts its own policy. Male chinook should be let upstream to maintain the ecosystem, and provide recreational fishing. There is no conservation needed. This wouldn't hurt anyone and the Squaxins coulld still maintain their fishery on hatchery stock.