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    West coast salmon recovery

    That is exactly right. There is nothing wrong with hatchery fish straying and recolonizing spawning habitat, I'd call that a goal in different scenarios, especially if the hatcheries are well run and with good genetics. The tribes have done this a lot. There are various self sustaining wild...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    Habitat restoration is akin to religion for some people, just like SE Alaska harvest can be for others, and others believe more hatchery fish is all we need. That doesn't mean habitat, harvest, and hatcheries aren't part of the answer in various ways, or vice versa. The tribes have...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    I'd like to say I'd love to see that data, but that would be an enormous amount of data to look at, because it would take an enormous amount of that data to change the minds of many fisheries biologists and tribes (that I'm familiar with anyway) who believe a combination of habitat, harvest...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    Salmon habitat restoration can definitely be green washing and pointless. That doesn’t therefore mean habitat isn’t important. You can not believe in salmon habitat restoration and still believe habitat is important. Because it is. Fish need cold clean water and spawning habitat. Fish need to...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    Respectfully, that’s not correct. Thousands of miles of habitat all over the west are currently impeded by non passable dams and culverts. Lab proven Salmon killing chemicals from runoff such as 6QQP degrades stream habitat and are lethal for salmon. Low hot water in numerous spawning tribs...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    Yep. One of many examples of that is Idaho refusing fish passage at Hells canyon. https://species.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Idaho-Blocked-Areas-Policy.pptx#:~:text=Idaho%20Blocked%20Areas%20Policy,licensing%20(2019%20Settlement%20Agreement). I really admired what Mike Simpson was...
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    West coast salmon recovery

    You’re exactly right, that’s a huge one. Not just commercial fishing, also regulatory capture by corporate interests which can, and does, result in habitat destruction, pollution, unenforced regulations, hot water, no water, no fish passage, etc etc.
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    List the native wildlife species you deem acceptable in the world.

    Idk, I think of how many deer are in Michigan and the part of the state I’m familiar with is still pretty keen on having no coyotes around. People put poison out for them. Oh, and chronic wasting disease is a government conspiracy against hunters, and the insurance agencies are behind any...
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    List the native wildlife species you deem acceptable in the world.

    Context is important here. What is a native species? a plant or animal that originates and lives naturally in a specific geographic area, without human introduction. A lot of plants we consider native were introduced by people, so by our own definition they aren't native. There is a lot...
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    Feral horse removal

    A contrarian view: These horses are part of our American heritage. They should absolutely be managed where indicated, however, cheering on eradication of something because of ‘non native’ status, in a new world that is completely different than 300 years prior, just doesn’t make sense to me...
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    Newest US Senate Land Sale Amendment

    Yep…just went through a segment of Glacier NP today and it reminded me of much of the other NP’s and USFS land I’ve been to. Once in awhile a placard acknowledging a small meadow and how natural succession will eventually replace it. Ethnobotany books really put it in perspective (what the land...
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    Restoring a riparian zone

    Without knowing the full background...that sounds frustrating. I like live stakes. OP mentioned willow and cottonwood. All ya do it take a bunch of 2 foot branch cuttings from nearby plants in the winter and put them half way in the soil where you want a plant. Mark them with some flagging so...
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    First cougar cubs verified in Michigan in more than a century

    Rumors of sightings in Osceola county, we have property there. They don't really need much, plenty of them on doorbell cams throughout urban areas in OR.
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    Peregrine Fund's New Video on Non-Lead Projectiles

    Switched over to copper after I read some lead poisoning papers several years ago. I’ve been happy!
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    Japanese Yew and Elk

    Even worse, it’s highly toxic to children and pets. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to have around IMO https://amp.idahostatesman.com/outdoors/article234442102.html
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