As I read the Sept. 3 front page (“Caught in regulatory net”), it took me back to 1945 through the 1950s and more, when we would eagerly look to the summer holidays. We would pack our cars with pots and pans, Coleman stove and lamp, sleeping bags and poles and family and go fishing, up to Lake Roesiger, past the cement building and grocery store to Woods Creek.
This was out in the boondocks then. There was a bridge over the creek and an old gravel pit turned into a garbage dump where we cleaned up a place to camp. Woods Creek kind of wandered through the whole area with drift piles of branches and debris making pools and at least five beaver ponds, new and old, going upstream for miles.
Every year the creek would flood and change its course and in the fall before hunting season, a large amount of salmon would make their final run if the creek had not changed so they couldn’t make it. Nobody from the state or county stuck their nose into it, unless the bridge got washed out, preventing the Monroe Logging Company from getting their timber out.
The purpose of this letter is to say that if Ron Lavigueure can devote the time, land and probably money to improving Woods Creek, more power to him. I hope the reigning powers have enough sense to say, “Have at it, Sir, you have done what we either won’t or can’t do.”
Everett
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