I’m not a radical environmentalist but I do know that Mother Nature has a unique ability to overcome the mess that we create. The dams were a huge contributing factor in the destruction of our historic runs of salmon and steelhead.
The Elwah might not be an apples to apples comparison but it is a great example of how much the “ex-spurts” DON’T know! The same arguments were made before the Elwah came down and they said the very same thing about fish recovery but what the Elwah did prove was that not only are the ex-spurts absolutely clueless regarding the ability of fish to temporarily “adapt” to unfavorable river conditions but how fast the river itself was able to rehabilitate itself. The amount of information that came out of the Elwah removal is staggering, the amount of information that the “scientists”… aka professional bullshit purveyors don’t know is equally as staggering. The ability of the fish to survive in rivers, like the Elwa with high sedimentation surprised everyone.
The river will remediate the abortion that man and greed created, the fish will recover in time and all the naysayers and doom and gloomers will be deafeningly quiet. If the choice is between continuing to kick the can down the road while the fish and habitat suffers simply because the bullshit purveyors don’t “think” it’ll work and/or it’s far easier to do nothing than to fix this mess or to ignore the bullshit purveyors and remove the biggest impediments to fish recovery then the choice is EASY…..ignore the bullshit artists.
If the “scientists” were half as smart as they think and tell everyone they are we would not even be having this conversation but their abject failures over decades has led to these drastic measures today! I’ve watched the dumbfucks with their cushy government “biologist” job manage our fish and game into virtual extinction, at least compared to the pre-hydro days. I have less than ZERO faith in the scientific community and anyone with more than 2 brain cells bumping around upstairs knows how pathetically biased and agenda driven that collection of dumbfucks are.
We will NEVER recover our runs until we recover our habitat! Overfishing cannot even enter the debate UNTIL we have suitable habitat for the fish to return to! There’s a large segment of “ex-spurts” within the tribes and the “scientific community” and the commercial fishing industry that have come to the foregone conclusion that wild fish are all but extirpated and hatchery fish are the future, I don’t agree but I do know for a FACT that without habitat we’re all fighting to be the guy that caught the last fish.
My comments are NOT directed at anyone specific and are based on 45+ years of fishing in a state that has managed our fish into a state of oblivion….the total destruction of what were once jaw dropping runs with huge fish are all but gone and that’s all thanks to the scientific experts. If I sound angry and dubious of “scientific” experts it’s probably because I AM! If I give them impression that I don’t trust the bullshit artists in the “scientific community” that have hidden behind “science” while ignoring the facts…it’s because I am!
Anyone that has been awake for the last 50+++ years while “science” has been mandating whatever political agenda they’ve been ordered to follow AND they still trust the “scientific establishment” should be automatically relegated to the imbecile category. The cult of scientific ignorance has wrought destruction on virtually every facet of our modern life…from the vehicles we drive to the stoves we can buy NONE of it is based on “science” but rather it’s based on MONEY, POWER and POLITICS!
