Salmo g.

I had assumed that John M. had been miss-quoted or at the very least isolated quotes were taken out of context. I will be interested to see what he has to say.

If not then TU's wild steelhead initiative has some serious catch upping to do to reach speed on steelhead management issues in this State and at the very least some serious bridge re-building to.

He was correct the Skagit system had a jump start on this "gene bank" idea. Just neglected to mention that jump start was on the Sauk in 2008 and included much more than just eliminating hatchery plants. I believe that those 2008 changes resulted in the largest "gene bank" in the State.

Curt