well like i said before its hard to gat a straight answer from the corps or ODFW and you will never get the same answer twice from either one.
frankly I believe your right it is all about money. just think of how much they would have to spend to bring back al the runs up the valley that got decimated by the dams in the 40s. I seen an article once that said through eugene there were abundant runs of summer and winter steelhead, spring and winter chinook ,plus coho.
think about how much money they would have to spend to bring back the runs we had historically.
you know the less fish they plant the less money they have to shell out to the tax payers our state is just way to over loaded with non essential employees:with the computer age we shouldnt need 5 secertaries for every managers position and we shouldnt need 5 managers for every bioligist or field workers position, and when you factor in all the unpaid interns and step volunteers ODFW is wasting 80% of their budget on salaried employees that do nothing but shuffle paper around. there is no reason that bioligists can not enter their data straight to the main frame and delete the need for paper shuffelers.
crusty