The fact that Gov. Kitzhaber is an angler may be part of the answer. Washington's Gov. Locke may know which end of a fish goes upstream first but I wouldn't bet on it. Who did he put in charge of his salmon recovery bureaucracy? Why, Curt Smitch of course, the very person who so aptly managed the decline of our salmon and steelhead resources just a few years ago. Locke's adamant opposition to breaching of the Snake River dams and the kind of sweetheart deals he wants to cut with the timber companies lead me to expect lots of puffery and little or no substance where salmon recovery is concerned. You've got it right; we have to stay in their faces and on their asses and speak with a unified voice if we expect to get anything at all accomplished.