Ned, we feel your utter frustration and anger. It goes beyond the Corp. Our own State is just as guilty. The unwillingness to engage the Tribes permeates this States Government. The good intentions of “The Centennial Accord” have been twisted to present the Tribes as some all powerful separate nation who is beyond the jurisdiction of any state law. The willingness of our department to drink the cool-aid that any meeting with the Tribes is “Government to Government” is a symptom of a greater cancer of appeasement. Couple that with the suspected tremendous and un-reported amount of money being pumped into the political coffers through lobbyists and campaign donations and you get a pretty good idea why our fisheries are in such a dismal state.