Ark,

How about his view adresses more issues and groups. this has po'd the sports fisherman. He also then allows the states to manage vs gore and Kerry's land grab tactics.( See King Co CAO proposals) ? The states have the final say bottom line. . It's not the zero sum you or others make it out to be. Fish declined under Clinton/Gore at a more rapid rate than they did under previous presidents. This will be true moving forward. Mans population has an impact and ou cannot grow this states pop by 15% and not impact the environment with out impacting the economy. To save the fish you would have to seriously realign the economy and peoples lives and no politician will do that. Everything else is window dressing a problem that contiues to get worse with no end in site. Some call it pessimistic to say releasing a wild fish does nothing. Then again they forget that the 2 kids they have living at home now will build a house in some fishes watershed in a few years and negate that release of the wild fish 1000x over.


On me:
I have 10 acres set aside all riparian and have restored 2200 feet of Salmon bearing creek with only natural plants. I am the only one on this watershed that has exceed grazing and farming setbacks as proscribed under the new proposed CAO. The canopy is 142 year old Western red cedars. I have also planted 1500 western red cedars along with 150 firs on my land. My electrical bill is less than $35 per month and iIdo not use propane or natural gas or tother fossil fuels. I am 95% organic and grow or raise %80+ percent of my own food. My garbage total is lest than a cubic foot per week. And my impact on earths environment just by living in America is almost 20x that of the avg. citizen of the world. Meaning even after doing all that I have ipollute earths environment more than most people on the planet.