Right on Carcassman. More stupidity by the folks who "managed" our fisheries, because nearly all of these stream blockages were permitted by WDFW, (or WDF or WDG in the old days). The statutes were very clear. so someone either didn't do their job, or employees were over ruled by their respective administrators. Permits were supposedly written by "experts". I know that when I was in the field several of the HPA permit writers told the hiway construction crews not to worry about permits for many of the smaller streams. What the hell, this only contributed to the lawsuit that will cost a couple billion bucks! Sure wish we had a fraction of the several billion $ settlement in order to get rid of seals, sea lions and cormorants.

Couple this with the criminally effective gillnets in Columbia River tributaries program in the late 70's/early 80's to harvest predicted surplus hatchery stocks returning to hatchery streams that helped wipe out our wild fish. And on the insanity still goes.....