Milt Roe:

I understand your frustration but your (our) losses are not a justification for blindly accepting what WDFW and the other agencies tied into this thing purport without there being an opportunity for the public to review the hypothesis and supporting data/rationale, discuss all of the alternatives, and arrive at the best solution - whatever that may be. And by the way, most of the changes you set forth herein have been the product of that public review process. So with your frustrations do you really want to impose this closure upon those folks without an open public hearing?

Also, I understood that the issue was the closing of the lake to all fishing with emphasis on kokanee rather than the "loss" of an artificial trout fishery as you describe it. The DNA studies apparently prove that the kokanee in the lake are from original stocks trapped behind the dam and have been self-sustaining in the lake ever since even though there has been an active fishery on them.

As you are a waterfront owner I find it strange that you have complained about restrictions on your property rights and then complained about posted tidelands (presumably meanings your loss of access to them). Is it possible that those tidelands were owned by someone exerting THEIR property rights? Care to elaborate?