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Tim..... ..late 40's early 50's I was teenager going to school in Durango, Colo. Don't know anything about your story. Because my father was a dam surveyor for US Bureau of Reclamation, I knew that there was a big dam built on the Columbia River called Bonneville (which is up river from Longview). I remember seeing flickery black and white news reels of Indians standing on rickety ol' pole frames catchin' these great big ol'fish in hoop nets on long poles as they were jumping up these big waterfalls to back up river to spawn. These waterfalls were going to disappear when the river fills behind the dam. There I was catching lil'ol rainbow trout outta my back door in the mighty Anamas River. I could keep anything over 6". I didn't get to keep many. You know, going back to Durango on visits, that mighty Anamas river, I could almost spit across now. The difference between adult vs child perspectives. Kelso/Longview is about 100 miles from my RockyRidge SheepStation. Their biggest crop down there is Christmas Trees. Now that the environmentalists have convinced this dumb ol'judge that spotted owls are endangered species and they need all this old growth timber so they can make love. So by judicial fiat, he destroyed an entire industry and way of life by mis-interpreting the poorly written Endangered Species Act. Now the same self-appointed environmentalists are trying the same trick complaining that Salmon are endangered species because my little sheepies make little pills on the ground that contains nasty e-coli and that is poisoning the river water so they can't swim up it to make love where they were born. Salmon, the only endangered species you can buy on your grocery shelf..... ....Dell, bah humbug
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