I'm not sure about the Timber issue, but it is because of Democrats that the fishery is in the sad state it is in. Every piss poor director of fish and wildlife we've had for the last 10+ years have been appointed by democrat governers. The tribes have the democrats in their hip pocket. Last election democrat candidates recieved nearly $7 million from the tribes. It is Republicans who support measures to take nets out. John Carlson wanted to remove nets, not Locke. Republicans supported I-695, not Democrats.