There comes a point where there literally is nothing more that the State/Feds can do, and that's the time that either the tribes have to stop pushing (well, before that time, really), or that's the time that Congress will have to step in and put a stop to it.

You can't get blood out of a turnip. You can't re-make Puget Sound into 1886 Puget Sound. You not only can't turn back the clock to 1886, you can't really stop the march that we are on, either...it's not like they are going to shut down all development, water withdrawals, road use, shipping, or anything like that.

The tribes also aren't going to get their land back.

Even if justified in asking for all of those things (which the tribes very well may be), they are literally impossible to give.

I think that fighting over culverts was silly, unless the State really thought that the "we can literally destroy entire populations of salmon without impairing the treaty right" was a winner...and if they thought that, then they were really, really wrong.

Fish on...

Todd