Obsessed hit the nail on the head.They have lobbied for permits to dredge it but have been turned down.I do not believe that even if the dam on the north fork was removed that it would recover down below with out having a good dredging.Lake cushman has the stocks left though to warrent the removal.There are huge dollys,chinnok salmon and wild rainbow and cutty stock up there just hankering for the north fork back.

Simpson is definately guilty of filling the river with mud.They try alot harder up there but it still washes brown with every heavy rain due to the logging and all the roads.I would like to see them recapture some of the blocked roads and push the buffers even farther back from the river.

There are some beautiful resident steelhead populations hiding back in the canyons,and the dollys are getting thicker every year.I have caught some beautiful wild steelhead in there over the years also.