From Ron Warren's email: " . . . WDFW takes seriously the input from our stakeholders and the public on the transparency issue and is not avoiding or delaying efforts to find solutions."

Avoiding the solution is precisely what WDFW has done and apparently intends to continue doing. Carcassman described the appropriate high road solution: develop a state plan that meets US v WA and ESA requirements, hand it to NMFS and let the feds deal with it. I cannot understand why WDFW continues to follow NMFS' Bob Turner's advice to agree with the tribes and ride the BIA coattails to fish. There is another way. NMFS just doesn't want to deal with it as long as they can get WDFW to go along.