reddawg

Other carrion-eating species benefitting from our increasing propensity to generate garbage and road kill: the turkey vulture. I saw this one on a backroad near Springbank two weeks ago. Apparently they are moving northward as we pave more of our gravel backroads in western Canada (pavement = increased road kill). vulture.pdf

Nice PFD DFD

Well, if you call it an "Environmental Impact Fee", some users will take that as a license to Impact the Environment: "I pay my fee, so it's OK to keep on doing what I do". Maybe take a portion of the fee to beef up enforcement.

Yakima River fishes well in early to mid-March - a 3-4 week skwala hatch and decent sized rainbows feeding on them. Nearby wine country has some appeal, too.