I think many fishermen would be surprised to learn that most of Oregons legendary salmon runs were wiped out, and some extinct by 1920... in 1918 it was illegal to commercial or sport fish any of the lower Columbia tribs, the sandy and Wilson were pretty much toast and the Necanicum had actually been subjected to nets placed completely across the river, that's why you can keep a native king in the necanicum.. geneticly the run has long been extinct. The Post ww2 industrial boom led to logging becoming mechanized and much more efficient, 1945 until the late 70's and even into the 80's in some areas had very little oversight and was done with no real thought of the environment... this was the death sentence of the Oregon native steelhead and coho runs.. just the Nehalem watershed alone is a logging environmental disaster... but new laws and more responsible logging practices are helping the coho and steel make a comeback. The 1980's and 90's introduced a lot of new organizations onto the outdoor scene... in the nick of time. I personally like to think we are looking forward to a brighter future- I recommend the movie "Rivers of a lost coast" to anyone who is curious about where all the fish went, the men that taught me how to steelhead fish came out of the Eel, and Smith and Russian river fisheries, their stories always exited me... and broke my heart- There is nothing in this world I enjoy more than fishing for steelhead..