I'll go out on a limb and say that all this discussion is pretty much academic...

The Snider program is being moved from the Sol Duc because the HSRG requires that systems have Wild Steelhead Management Zones where there are no hatchery fish at all...and the Duc is the easiest spot to set up a WSMZ on the Quillayute system because of the tons of hatchery fish put in the Bogachiel and Calawah.

The program will move to the Bogachiel, and we all know, no matter what the rhetoric is saying now, that there will be no meaningful monitoring of it there, either.

I will continue to state the obvious...any program that's been measured fails to do anything except to turn wild fish into hatchery fish for harvest...and those who like broodstock programs will proclaim it a "success" within 18 months of starting it.

Nothing will change.

Fish on...

Todd