Apparently the mud mt. dam that controls the flows on White was lowered from 1600 cfs to 200cfs in a matter of hours, thousands of coho, chinook (ESA Listed), and steelhead smolts were trapped in side channels and became stranded and died. The Army Corps lowered the flows so that PSE could do some routine maintainence on the flume that feeds Lk. Taps. I heard about this by word of mouth from some of the WDFW biologist.

This story will probably be in the weekend papers.

Just a sad sad story about a river that was finally starting to come back thanks to alot of hard work from all sorts of political and private groups cry

BD
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Bobber Down

"It makes no sense to regulate salmon habitat on land while allowing thousands of yards of gill nets to be stretched across salmon habitat in the water"

John Carlson, Gubernatorial Contender, Sept. 2000 speech at the Ballard Locks