The Wynoochee $2 million is not gone; it's still in the bank. WDFW and TP drafted a proposal, and I think they sent it to FERC for approval. The plan is to make some modernization improvements at the Wynoochee fish trap downstream of the dam, buy a new fish hauling truck with a proper tank for water-to-water transfer of fish, and upgrade the Lake Aberdeen hatchery water supply, which is where all the Wynoochee mitigation and enhancement steelhead are raised.

There are presently no plans to stock hatchery coho or chinook in the Wynoochee, natural production only. I know that frustrates anglers who would like to harvest salmon in the Wynoochee, but with natural production only, the river will serve as a good barometer of natural production in the Chehalis basin. With the basin's only flood control dam, if natural production chinook can't make it in the Wynoochee, realistically, where in the basin can they make it?

Sg