I have been ideologically aligned with the tribes for about 30 years. Soon as I met some of my fishing counterparts.

And my support of the tribes gets reinforced everyday as I study restoration projects and out of the box thinking to restore salmon to places where they haven't been in decades. It is always the tribes directly involved or entirely in charge of these projects.

And since the WDFW has had such severe budget cuts, it has been the tribes that have stepped up and written checks to keep programs afloat. But we never hear about these things on the news. Nor do they get coverage in sportmans magazines.

Its easy to understand. For the tribes, the salmon are religion. For the state, its just a job.