Nate,

Are you kidding me? You want me to pay to get WSC's white paper? In effect financially supporting WSC for taking a position that I find dubious? What a joke!

I am curious about how they justify some of what's been done, but I'm not paying to find out.

If you can't provide it for free, then why should I read it? If anything WSC should pay me to read it and comment.

WSC has a nice web site, surely they could put it out there for free.

If WSC wants people to understand where they are coming from (maybe they don't), then they need to put it their information on the internet for everyone to see (for free).

Charging the public for WSC's take on steelhead managment just further supports the common public impression that WSC is an elitist group with a self-serving agenda.

At the very least get a few copies out the public libraries.

Geoduck

You are SO-SO-SO- SO-SO- So SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSO

RIGHT!!!!!

It would be just like me telling this board that you have to pay to read my 45 pages of written comments to Tacoma's FHMP about the Cowlitz!

Cowlitzfisherman

If copies have been submitted to the Commissioners as public testimony it would follow that every interested member of the public might be entitled to receive a copy from the commission upon request.

Or perhaps a club might have an extra amongst the 5 copies they received.

Would the WSC object to my posting a free copy online?

Sorry to say that right now there are only 2 of the 7 chapters available for online reading, they are linked under WSC articles. I'll look into getting the rest up there soon, either for online reading or as downloadable pdf's, and report back here tomorrow.

If all goes according to plan, we'll have the full white paper available for download as a pdf by the end of the week. I'll post an announcement on this thread when it's up.