Thanks RiverLiver!

It appears that most of you have just skipped over the wording that I had used! That word was "noble". Everyone already knows that the timber companies, pulp and paper industries, land developers, and the home builders, could care less, and never have had any concern about doing anything "noble" for the fish. They do everything for money and that’s it!

But the tribes have told us that the white mans ways are wrong and that they "respect the land and habitat" that support the ceremonial fish.

You got to remember that we are talking about a race of people who have for hundreds of years now, have become depended on the hand outs from the white man to better there race. After they were conquered by the white man, we gave them land to live on (reservations). Then we made them even more dependent on the white man for there own survival. Now they must depend on the white mans money to bring back their habitat that support their ceremonial beliefs that fish are part of their ancestral culture.

So what's wrong with encouraging them to do something noble for their own race and for the fish? One would think that the tribes would want to be an independent nation that did not depend on the white mans money to restore there culture. Maybe people would once again believe that the tribes are still a noble race if they could once again do something noble, and not ask the the white man for the money to do it! It's easy to take the white mans money and then complain about how bad the white man has managed the lands, but wouldn't it be noble of the tribes to show the white man that they truly do care about the fish and not just the money and "walk the talk"!

Anyway, they do have an opportunity now to put fish ahead of profit, and show the white man that they do really care about the fish.

Cowlitzfisherman