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To: ManyMoose who wrote (71843)	6/12/2008 8:57:30 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) of 542169

ManyMoose; He's a big salmon fisherman. Well you better tell your buddy the salmon season has been closed in Oregon. Anyone who thinks the salmon runs along our west coast are in good shape have no understanding of what they were at one time. What is available is pathetic hatchery produced weaklings. West Coast lawmakers from both parties called the request a slap in the face of fishermen hurting from the collapse of the salmon fishing industry in California, Oregon and Washington. ........The collapse led to the largest salmon closure in West Coast history and caused losses the states estimate will total about $290 million. California is seeking $208 million in federal disaster aid, Oregon $45 million and Washington $36 million. examiner.com Clearcutting is a REGENERATION METHOD. That is, it is the first step in replacing an old decrepit forest with a new, fast-growing one. Second growth mono aged industrial forest are wildlife wastelands - at least here on the Olympic peninsula. They offer no winter protection for elk herds from deep snow and the vegetation is bordering on worthless. I went an a very interesting trip with the game department to autopsy a radio tagged elk. (I was invited because I knew the area). The pregnant cow elk, and of course her calf, died from malnutrition surrounded by thousands of acres of pure second growth. ......The old growth forest is the forest the elk adapted to and the need of it for protection in harsh winters and the type of food available to them is a must. There are some elk that have adapted to lowland conditions - we call them farmer elk - but they are but one step above a zoo animal. The really wild elk herds and the feisty wild and powerful salmon and steelhead are NOT products in second growth forest. If you are happy with hatchery salmon and farmer elk - then we just differ as to what we call wild and wilderness

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