Thickline,
I cannot disagree with your statement about salmo having vast knowledge. Big difference between he and I is that I make no attempt at being anonymous, I have some knowledge around this particular area also. In fact I believe salmo to be a certain WDFW employee that was invited but did not come to the meeting. I could be wrong and don't care if I am but with anonymity comes the ability to say whatever one wants without recourse in anyway. My primary point is that he posted information about a meeting that had not taken place yet...in fact 6 hours away. That in my book makes him a liar. As for letters, mine have been written but I do not believe for a moment that any will help.

If any of you folks are concernend about keeping your favorite river basically the same be ready to dip into your checkbook a little (don't know how much) and join in on the class action lawsuit that will begin on August 16th. I believe that the only way to really make the Cowlitz the river we would all like it to be then we need a strong court victory that will pin Tacoma to their obligation of fish returns, force them into fish passage that makes sense for fish, and to create a hatchery in the meantime that produces and maintains a quality put and take fishery in high numbers so that we don't simply just rape all the other rivers by shear numbers.

I will say it again at the risk of being redundant...lets not experiment on the Cowlitz...there is to much to lose on it and other systems.

Jim