I concluded my most recent column for The Chronicle with what I had hoped would be a specious rumor.
Unfortunately, that is not the case.
The Corps of Engineers that provides funding for hatchery trout and summer steelhead in the upper Willamette River Basin, under a compensatory mitigation program with the State of Oregon, will be completely discontinuing funding for the production of summer steelhead.
Also being reduced is the Army Corps contribution to the…
