September 12, 2013
Thursday PM

When I first lived in the Stockton, CA area, there were no salmon in the rivers. The rivers were dry in late summer. This was normal as the rivers were not year round waterways, 100 years ago they only had water when there was run off from the Sierras.

When I visited there 40 years ago, the Hogan and Comanche dams were opened enough to let some water down the rivers year round in an attempt to replenish the groundwater, and salmon were starting to run up them.

Those watersheds not only had clear cuts, but farms and ranches, and had been "hydrolicked" (gold bearing rock had been blasted apart by water pressure and the gravel run through sluices, with mercury traps).

The environmentalists are not just grossly overstating the need for virgin territory, they are either liars or totally incompetent. Or both.

Duane Hill
Ketchikan, Alaska

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