great Poll Cowlitz. The only thing i'd say is that just putting hatchery fish above the dams does not mean that the habitat will be used as natural production. The most telling statement is our answer to the creating a new wild run on the Cowlitz. A resounding no.
1 they won't be able to do it anyway because hatchery fish don't reproduce in the wild well enough to sustain the run. The idea of creating a wild run from a hatchery run is so absurd i can't even imagine the Bio's at wdfw thinking it is possible.
I think we all agree that the Cowlitz should be managed as a hatchery production river and that money spent of wild fish should be in tribs to the lower Cow.. Toutle, Coweeman ect...