Steve, I don't know where you get your information, but you had better check
before making such statements. Where are you going to make it Wild and
Scenic? Except for about 15 miles, the river is privately owned. Half of
the publicly owned has deteriotrated because of lack of management by the
Forest Service. they won't do anything without an EIR! If you want to help
out this river, pass some laws that give fishermen access to privately owned
land (tough), and install some rules where privately owned reservoirs have
to supply water in the winter time to keep the fish healthy (again tough).
Actually the latter is probably not needed since they already release what
the State requests of them.
Probably the biggest problem for the East Walker is the lack of snow in the
watershed the past few years. Although most watersheds in the Sierra have
received "normal" snow fall, the Walker Basin has only received about 70% of
normal. The rainbows have not been reproducing with the lower waterflows.
Maybe you you can get some planes to fly around a seed the clouds!!


"steve" wrote in message
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Not sure if I got the terminology correctly, but this has always been a
trophy trout stream that has had its trophy fish killed off by the
farmers. Is anyone trying to get it this status, or are the farmers too
big of a obstacle?


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