Corky

So am I. The fact that 2 guns on your belt is illegal for ordinary citizens is an example of how laws change with the cultural landscape. The Constitution is full of ammendments that changed law when it was time. Time being defined as the public majority thinking something needed to be changed. It will take a public majority followed by a Federal action to change Tribal Treaty rights. Not that it can't happen; it just isn't likely.

Loomisman

Just like netting, logging has caused affects to some streams and not to others. Given the health of the coastal streams, I guess I'd agree with you--but different story on Deer Creek, a tributary of the North Fork Stillaguamish River. The Deer Creek summer-run steelhead is one of the only wild summer-runs in Puget Sound streams with populations large enough to fish. Greats like George McCloude and Zane Grey fished these legendary fish. This run was decimated by logging practices such that the lower river is fishable less than 50 percent of the time due to slides and runnoff creating visibilities of less than a foot. The causes of decline has been well documented on this stream.

What bothers me about topics like this one is that people don't seem to realize or care that nets aren't the only problem. Even when people acknowledge other activities contribute to declines, the subsequent rants on treaties and nets makes it all too clear who people think is responsible. This gets us nowhere.