When I talked to Curt, he said that funding for Reiter Ponds and its satellite rearing facilities is now a regular part of the WDFW's budget request. I see that the latest round of emergency cuts does affect a couple of hatchery programs, but not Reiter, et. al.
Note: The reason that the Whitehorse Rearing Ponds did not produce any summer-run smolts and that none were planted in the North Fork of the Stilly two years ago, while they WERE reared and planted in the Sky, Snoqualmie and Green, was that there was no outcry from the fly fishing community when the cuts were announced! If you don't speak up you don't get a piece of the pie!
The run of wild native summer-runs that spawn in Deer Creek seems to be down from the approximately 1000 of a couple of years ago to about 500, still well above the lows of the '80s and early '90s.