Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 27838
Loc: Seattle, Washington USA
Originally Posted By: DCC
So....you're saying he was to Fisheries what Booth Gardner was to hunting?
He definitely didn't make any sporting friends when he appointed Curt Smitch as Director, who promptly opened up a lot of non-tribal land to tribal hunting, that's for sure...but even that wasn't anywhere near the long term damage that the Gorton's Fisherman did to salmon and steelhead fishing around here.
Registered: 03/08/99
Posts: 1815
Loc: Wenatchee, WA
The Gorton's had been strip mining the Sea for a long time before Slimy Slade came around but he definately helped the family/industry while significantly hurting the resources with his long term tenure!
The Booth/Smitch chit show hurt locally (personal opinion)...herds haven't rebounded (IMO); throw in WDFW poor choices since then (wolves, cougars mgmt), winterkill, wildfires, etc and the big game has really taken it in the shorts the last 25 years or so.
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Registered: 10/26/10
Posts: 7204
Loc: Snohomish, WA
Originally Posted By: Steelheadman
Kool & the Gang co-founder Ronald 'Khalis' Bell RIP.
For music history buffs, I read last night that Cathy "Sundown" Smith died @ 73 near the end of August. She was Gordon Lightfoot's muse and also the woman who injected Belushi with his fatal speedball the night he died (after Robin Williams and De Niro left his apartment).
Here's to dangerous womens...
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