My family managed the Lodge property for twenty years starting back in 1980. We tried to get fisheries to address the rising river bed every year as the flooding of our property got worse every year. I could stand on our dikes, looking at the river in the distance, and the river level would be over my head.
Nothing was ever done, it was up to us and the Chehalis Band to try and divert the water and decrease the damage it was causing. I use to pick up trailers of dead coho and chum after the floods left them scattered across our property.
Getting them to do anything to this river seems to be a waste of resources and time from past experience. Very sad to see an easy limit fishery tank into another mismanaged tax payer money pit (hatchery).