Locust:

It is arrogant and erroneous to assume that I have not taken the opportunity to educate myself. I read everything I can get my hands on, including the stuff you keep posting, most of which I read well before you posted it.

That said, it would be foolhardy to simply accept as the gospel ideas that are out of sync with most of what I read and that come from an organization that seems to have a strong political bias.

For many years we were able to read scientific papers, funded by the tobacco companies, that told us cigarettes were quite safe. I guess we should have accepted those reports because they were written by scientists.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not anti hatchery. I would like to see continued hatchery plants and even expanded planting, where we can do so with no or little harm to existing wild stocks.

But I am very wary of those who would "solve" our habitat and water resource problems by simply pumping out more hatchery fish. And that seems to be the agenda that is coming out of the Salmonid Foundation.

I have repeatedly tried to find out just who the Salmonid Foundation is, where they get there funding and what their agenda is. I have had no luck. If you are so concerned about my education, how about letting us all know the answers to those questions.