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Mark wrote:
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> Dear David Underwood:
> I appreciate your not taking the time to try to justify the US Fish and
> Wildlife.  Because the lack credibility at one level casts the lack of
> credibility shadow at all levels.  The USA is subsidizing the lack of
> credibility in the US Fish and Wildlife which is pervasive throughout
> the agency.
> 
> I was referring to the Portland office, you bring up some other area!
> 
> Mark, from the land of the Mighty Columbia!!
I am not sure where the distrust in the U.S.F&W comes fromas I hav not
seen any reason to do so.  But it is appearant the you have some reason
for distrusting them. As for myself, I can remember when hundreds of
thousand of ducks and geese stopped in San Francisco bay and the San
Joaquin Delta.  We caught salmon in the bay off the berkely pier. And a
few years later when I hunted in the Sierra Nevada there were herds of
mule deer up to 200 strong.  I began to notice the dicline in the deer
heards as the clearcut logging took over and the Orovill dam and Shasta
dam did in the salmon in the bay.  Filling in the wetlands reduced the
duck and geese populations to the point where a migrating flock is now a
rarity.  Clearcut logging silted up the coastal rivers and most of the
steelhead are gone.  I was an avid fisherman and hunter and I appreciate
whatever can be done to preserve what is left.  I also caught steelhead
in the creek next to our hose in Middletown but Berryessa dam stopped
that. So I am happy to see that some effort is being made to trya nd
rectify some of these losses.