Well Drifter, we can probably agree that there is something other than responsible fish management going on in Region 6, and 5 for that matter.

Absent some data to the contrary I'd predict that the water supply at the Skookumchuck is not suitable for spring chinook from a temperature and disease perspective at the very least. My interpretation is that even during pristine environmental conditions the Chehalis basin contained only a small amount of habitat that was somewhat suitable for spring chinook. With habitat perturbation in the form of logging that small amount that may have been suitable became marginal. And so a marginal springer population has hung on in three upper tributaries, in defiance of the odds. Coho, cutthroat, and steelhead are the species best suited to existing habitat conditions.

Sg