Todd -
As the article that Dan referred to indicates it seems that we continually have to muck with natural systems in the name of salmon recovery. With the significant salmon production occurring in the habitat made accessible to them at Sunset and Granite it would seem unlikely that there would be the political will to return those areas to historic conditions - to easy to call them mitigation for other habitat abuse.

I would hope if that such projects were proposed today that they would not be built. If it were left for me to decide I would end the truck and haul at Sunset and disable the ladder at Granite. I strongly believe that the key to restoring and keeping healthy wild salmonid populations is the maintance of the natural process in which the fish had evolved - that includes those habitat features that allowed the species diveristy to develop.

I'm sure to no one's surprise many folks would disagree with my position - it is much easier politically to allow mucking with "improving habitat" features than "paying the piper" for habitat protection or restoration.

Tight lines
S malma