As an infrequent poster around here, I can add a bit of personal knowledge that the goal here is co-management of not just fish but co-management of all things affecting fish. Tribes are asking for the right to have a say prior to any land use or water use decision is made. Yes, that includes individual wells and individual homes being built.

However you feel about tribal rights and treaty rights, if that is the outcome of the culverts case, things will change in a big, big way. And many people will be pissed. Thinking about national politics and how things swing when people get angry, it's uncertain how things will end up. I don't know if the fish will end up ahead.

But, I do see more hatchery Chinook production in the near future. I just don't know if that means non-Indians will be able to fish on those new fish.