Keta.. Thats an extremely sad story and EXTREMELY!!! typical of how our forests, fisheries and as far as I know all natural resource extraction has been here in the northwest. Now we are doing the same thing with urban expansion. It is a money grubbing political game.
A lot of people badmouth enviromentalists and conservationists but they are the only reason we have anything left..

Down here is SW Washington we have a large gravel company that operating in the floodplain of a river and causing that river sever damage. Thie HCP ,Habitat conservation plan, is a joke and unless something is done soon well he will destroy the river more than he already has. This guy is a criminal at heart and deed if not in law. It is my opinion he needs to be in jail for his past actions.

This is a never ending battle to keep oru government fromallowing the destructionof our natural enviroment by privaye companies that are raking in the millions.. I wish it was just the enviromental front on which these things were happening...
If they are not careful they will push us to revolt..