FishBear,

As an equal opportunity critic, you probably know I never defend any agency for doing its best to incur the deserved wrath of the public its supposed to serve. My points were that there is no ESA timeline for recovery plans, only that they are to be developed; and recovery plans are guidance documents with nary a single enforceable element; and lastly that the lawsuit will consumer money and human resources while not producing a single additional wild steelhead, which presumably is the intended outcome.

Sg