I LOVE that the Tribes are interested in recovering habitat. Not hard to get behind something like that. The wholesale, all or nothing way they demanded it was obviously going to become a major economic problem for the State. Guess it didn't take too long.

I always said the day we stopped honoring treaties as supreme law would be the day it became too costly. That day has apparently arrived.

Interesting times ahead. No idea what will happen, but I am certain of one thing: there is no outcome to this case that benefits sport fishing, so for me, it comes down to basic principle. Even with habitat improvements, escapement goals will remain static, negating sny meaningful benefit of the new habitat. I'm no fan of tribal politics, but a ruling to allow Whitey to polish off the rest of the habitat would be a worse outcome, IMO. With the degraded habitat we have now, we get back 2% of what we did in the 70s. That 2% will seem like a lot when we see what comes back with zero habitat....